. in her will , adrienne askes lauren and me to raise jonas . we intend to do that to the best of our abilities .
he lowered his gaze . when he looked back up he was facing away from me , contemplating the seemingly infinite swath of the front range ." you know she was .... bisexual ? he swallowed the last word - the loaded word - as though it was a revelation not to be shared in polite company .
i raised my eyebrows involuntarily , not as a comment on adrienne's sexuality - her sexual adventures , and occasional misadventures , were a far from secret part of the texture of the fabric of who she was - but rather as a reaction to her brother's condescending judgment about her . at that moment marty and i were standing in a location with a fine view of boulder , and i was inclined to give him credit for being sufficiently cosmopolitan that he would have at least an inklling that the rooms behind us were infiltrated by men and women whose sexual identiyies were not describable by limiting his choices to words that began with prefix " hetero ."
marty caught my raised eyebrows but misinterpreted the gesture to be a sign of encouragement . he leaned forward a few inches and added ." more l than s if you know what i mean ." he lifted a fist in front of his mouth and coughed .
"excuse me ?" i said , hoping i'd heard him wrong . and hoping that he really wasn't someone who used snorts and throat noises as punctuation .
the l was likely " lesbian ." the s is " straight "? i thought , that must be it .
i wondered if i should tell marty that adrienne did not consider herself bisexual .
he said , ' that 's what i'mtalking about . with adrienne ? at times , she could have a sweetheart - my kids adored her visits - but there're things that , well , you don't really want to know about her .. my sister had her ....call them blind spots , she didn't make the wisest choicess . and she wasn't alwaya a good ...judge of what's best for the boy ."
he lowered his gaze . when he looked back up he was facing away from me , contemplating the seemingly infinite swath of the front range ." you know she was .... bisexual ? he swallowed the last word - the loaded word - as though it was a revelation not to be shared in polite company .
i raised my eyebrows involuntarily , not as a comment on adrienne's sexuality - her sexual adventures , and occasional misadventures , were a far from secret part of the texture of the fabric of who she was - but rather as a reaction to her brother's condescending judgment about her . at that moment marty and i were standing in a location with a fine view of boulder , and i was inclined to give him credit for being sufficiently cosmopolitan that he would have at least an inklling that the rooms behind us were infiltrated by men and women whose sexual identiyies were not describable by limiting his choices to words that began with prefix " hetero ."
marty caught my raised eyebrows but misinterpreted the gesture to be a sign of encouragement . he leaned forward a few inches and added ." more l than s if you know what i mean ." he lifted a fist in front of his mouth and coughed .
"excuse me ?" i said , hoping i'd heard him wrong . and hoping that he really wasn't someone who used snorts and throat noises as punctuation .
the l was likely " lesbian ." the s is " straight "? i thought , that must be it .
i wondered if i should tell marty that adrienne did not consider herself bisexual .
he said , ' that 's what i'mtalking about . with adrienne ? at times , she could have a sweetheart - my kids adored her visits - but there're things that , well , you don't really want to know about her .. my sister had her ....call them blind spots , she didn't make the wisest choicess . and she wasn't alwaya a good ...judge of what's best for the boy ."
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