my act wou;d have to suffice - i did not want to alian ate marty ." that 's what jonas saiod?" i asked ." he said he misses callie ?"
"callie " was the emergency code word jonas had choosen as canine in nature ,and misinterpreting the solution to be generic . marty believe his dopg should been enough for jonas .
"the puppy was a gift from his mother ," i said , offering a fresh perspective .
marty paused a beat before he responded . he's getting it . i thought , hoping , i was wrong about him .
marty said ," so ? everyting he has a gift from his mother , isn't it ? i mean , thjink about it ."
were i not so intent on not alianating marty , it would have been a fine time to ask if he'd ever taken introductory psych. or ever watched oprah .
"is there , marty ? can i speak with him ?"
"hi ," my son said a few sseconds later . his voice was completely devoid of the confidence i 'd heard from as he kicked the stone during our walk in white plains not too many days before . i imagined marty hovering behind jjonas as he spoke to me on the phone that hung from the wall next to to the refrigerator in kim's cluttered kitchen . ii needed to find a way to give the kid a cushion .
"hi ," i said ."hey , can you grab your cell and head out to the swing ?there arew some important phone lessons i need , anfd this may take a while . will you do that for me ? i will call you there in two minutes ."
my impulse was to go straight to new york from the denver airport, but a compassionate gate agent at DIA quickly helped me flights prehend that such a trip wasn't in the cards . the last two flights from denver tp laguardia that dat were overbooked .i'd beat the end of long stand by lists . other than the red eye into JFK - i recalledi didn't want to make kim schlep jonas all the way to JFK from white plains at the crack of dawn - the fi9rst chance i had to get out of denver to new york was on the earliest united flight the next morning .
"callie " was the emergency code word jonas had choosen as canine in nature ,and misinterpreting the solution to be generic . marty believe his dopg should been enough for jonas .
"the puppy was a gift from his mother ," i said , offering a fresh perspective .
marty paused a beat before he responded . he's getting it . i thought , hoping , i was wrong about him .
marty said ," so ? everyting he has a gift from his mother , isn't it ? i mean , thjink about it ."
were i not so intent on not alianating marty , it would have been a fine time to ask if he'd ever taken introductory psych. or ever watched oprah .
"is there , marty ? can i speak with him ?"
"hi ," my son said a few sseconds later . his voice was completely devoid of the confidence i 'd heard from as he kicked the stone during our walk in white plains not too many days before . i imagined marty hovering behind jjonas as he spoke to me on the phone that hung from the wall next to to the refrigerator in kim's cluttered kitchen . ii needed to find a way to give the kid a cushion .
"hi ," i said ."hey , can you grab your cell and head out to the swing ?there arew some important phone lessons i need , anfd this may take a while . will you do that for me ? i will call you there in two minutes ."
my impulse was to go straight to new york from the denver airport, but a compassionate gate agent at DIA quickly helped me flights prehend that such a trip wasn't in the cards . the last two flights from denver tp laguardia that dat were overbooked .i'd beat the end of long stand by lists . other than the red eye into JFK - i recalledi didn't want to make kim schlep jonas all the way to JFK from white plains at the crack of dawn - the fi9rst chance i had to get out of denver to new york was on the earliest united flight the next morning .
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