Amalia's Story, Chapter Fifty-Nine
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #12:
"If I have to marry a man, it might as well be you."

"What?"

"What?"

"What did you just say?"

"I didn't say anything."

Presently . . .

"My mother -- well, that is what she apparently said to her future husband."

"When was this?"

"Prior to their marriage."

"Which was when?"

"After she said that."

"It's like you're not even trying."

"I'm not."

"Anyway, what of it?"

"What do you mean? It's a completely normal thing to say. Why are we even still talking about it?"

"I mean, how would anyone apart from your mother and her husband even know about this conversation?"

"I don't know. One of them must have told someone."

"Under what circumstances would either one of them consider that an appropriate topic of conversation to share with a third party?"

"I couldn't say."

"Well, it doesn't sound like she liked men very much."

"No . . . Can we please move on?"

"Sure. Where were we?"

"Well, she married in 1947. December 27, 1947."

"Two days after Christmas."

"Completely ...