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his ex , merideth
if anyone else i knew from tjhe old days in bouler had died , adrienne would have picked up the phone to let me know that something awful had happened .
she , not alan -my ex-husband , alan gregory - had been the one who had called and ordered me to " sit down , damn it ," before she sobbed out the news o f her husband peter's murder so many years before .
her harbinger duties weren't limited to death announcements . adrience called to inform me when alan a serious new sweetheart , and later on , that the sweetheart had become his wife .
adrienne knew that i would want to know that te loving couple was pregnant , and later , that they had a healthy baby daughter they'd named grace .
adrienne would start each of the news from colorado -involving my-ex-husband conversations with something like , " do you really want to know thiis , mer ideth ? i don't have to tell you . i don't .say the word and i'll ask you about work , or the weather , or if you've found one decent man in new york city .we can talk about something girly . i can do girly , not for long , but ... or i coul;d bitch about something here . in boulder , i mean , july ? january ?the damn chinooks ? the broncos ? i don't like any of them ."
i'd reply that of course i wanted to know what was going on inalan's life . why wouldn't i ? then adrienne would tell me whatever it was she had called to tell me and my heart would get plucked like one of the long strings on a harp .
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his ex , merideth
if anyone else i knew from tjhe old days in bouler had died , adrienne would have picked up the phone to let me know that something awful had happened .
she , not alan -my ex-husband , alan gregory - had been the one who had called and ordered me to " sit down , damn it ," before she sobbed out the news o f her husband peter's murder so many years before .
her harbinger duties weren't limited to death announcements . adrience called to inform me when alan a serious new sweetheart , and later on , that the sweetheart had become his wife .
adrienne knew that i would want to know that te loving couple was pregnant , and later , that they had a healthy baby daughter they'd named grace .
adrienne would start each of the news from colorado -involving my-ex-husband conversations with something like , " do you really want to know thiis , mer ideth ? i don't have to tell you . i don't .say the word and i'll ask you about work , or the weather , or if you've found one decent man in new york city .we can talk about something girly . i can do girly , not for long , but ... or i coul;d bitch about something here . in boulder , i mean , july ? january ?the damn chinooks ? the broncos ? i don't like any of them ."
i'd reply that of course i wanted to know what was going on inalan's life . why wouldn't i ? then adrienne would tell me whatever it was she had called to tell me and my heart would get plucked like one of the long strings on a harp .
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