Amalia's Story, Chapter Fifty-Five
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #8:
"This is getting tedious."

"Tell me about it."

Presently . . .

"Anyway . . . "

"Yah . . . "

"A gift-wrapped copy of Penthouse magazine."

"My mother was not happy when family friends gave this to her husband as a birthday gift."

"In what way?"

"She walked out."

"Out of the party?"

"Yes."

"Where did she go?"

"She and her son walked down to the harbor to watch the fireworks. As they walked, her son said to her: I don't watch pornography. I don't even have a pornograph."

"Which . . . "

"Which is a totally normal thing to say."

"In a totally normal situation."

"Yes. She then said, Yes, that's old hat to you."

"Meaning . . . "

"Meaning nothing. It was just a random comment, that just happened to come up all by itself during the course of a totally normal conversation. For no reason. No reason at all."

"Good. Then what happened?"

"Nothing. Just normal stuff."

"It never happened. You're deluded. You lie."

"Yes. And in any case, it's time to forget the past and move on."

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