Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #13:
"I think if you wanted a babysitter, you should have married Mary Poppins."
-- Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman), "To Die For," 1995
"So she was married in 1947 . . . Two years after the war ended . . . "
"I bet they met at University -- "
"Then she didn't have her first son until 1956 . . . that's nine years . . . "
"Oh, that was totally normal back then."
"Especially among the Italians."
"CENTERVILLE KINDERGARTEN"
" . . . fast forward to 1964."
"Mrs. Louis Jacobucci, president of Centerville Kindergarten Association, has listed members of this year's class which opened Oct. 3 at the Community Building as follows - — "
"Oh my God, I knew that girl!"
"Patricia Jackson?"
"Attending the afternoon nursery class conducted by Mrs. Bearse and held from 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays are -- "
"Lily Giambarba?"
"And the very last name on the list -- "
"That is -- "
"Who?"
"Oh, that's one of her sons."
"Son Number Two."
"Interested parents may cont -- "
"Move on."
= Louis Jacobucci
"Destruction ...
It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just ...
It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are ...
So It Was Pretty Much Exactly Ten Years Ago This Very Day: A Short Story
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my sister met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"She played one of her l favorite funny tricks on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And the she would completely deny it. The first time she ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are manipulative. What is it you really want?"
"And ...
