Amalia's Story, Chapter Fifty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #5:
"I only want to say -- "

"Yes?"

"Well, I mean . . . That particular topic, we were discussing last week . . . "

"You mean -- "

"Yes. Well, I don't feel that is an appropriate topic."

"Why is that?"

"For this forum or any other forum. I don't even know how we ever even got onto that particular topic, which I don't even know what that word means, but whatever it means is disgusting."

"Do you mean the word ***?"

" . . . yes!"

"Can I just ask you one question, then we can drop the whole subject?"

"Sure."

"Well, I mean, how would such a conversation even come about?"

"Sorry?"

"I mean, why would your mother ever feel it was an appropriate topic of conversation, to talk about why she would or would not ever look at ***?"

"Actually, that's a good question . . . I guess it must have just come up in conversation."

"Yes, that's probably why. It was probably just a random topic of conversation that just happened to come up all by ...