Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"I Wanted To Know The Exact Dimension Of Hell"
= Part One: I Don’t Even Understand That Question
"We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me Mom and Daddy"
"We're A Happy Family"
Ramones, 1977
So, look. Velveteen tuned back in. She thought she heard her father's voice off in the distance. " . . . I dropped the baby! She was hysterical."
Her mind snapped back to Resort Area in the 1960s. Not the fun, laid back place of Plague Year 1982, but rather the very rural, very out of the way peninsula jutting out into the Boochlantic with a seasonal economy, mostly fishing.
VELVETEEN: A lot of fish.
ALPHA PRIME: Velveteen had always thought her father was the first social worker in Resort Area.
VELVETEEN: However, this, like literally everything else in the whole entire world, was not completely true!
ALPHA PRIME: Behind his noble façade, he and her mother were, she would much, much later come to realze . . .
VELVETEEN AND ALPHA PRIME (Simultaneously): Actual crypto-communists!
ALPHA PRIME: Like actual communists from the actual Cold War Era of the actual 1950s and early 1960s?
VELVETEEN: I know, right?
ALPHA PRIME: And he actually was ...
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 ...
