700 Sundays
Chapter One
We got a new car!
I was the most excited kid in the world because we finally got a new
car, and I didn't even know what make it was. All my father said on
the phone was, "I just bought a new car, and it's a surprise, so,
everybody be out in front of the house because I'm going to pull up
exactly at noon." So right before noon, we stood in the driveway, my
brothers, my mom and I, trying to guess what Dad bought.
"Maybe it's the Ford Fairlane," Joel, who was fifteen, wondered.
"No, I bet it's the Bonneville," Rip, eleven, said with authority.
"He mentioned something about the Chrysler Imperial," said Mom.
I interrupted, which I always did because I was the youngest and the
shortest, which made me the loudest. I was also nine. "Wait, he said
it was a surprise! What if he got," as I looked up to the sky with
hope, " a Cadillac?" (I swear I could hear angels singing.)
We were silent for a brief moment, all of us considering that
heavenly possibility, when we heard Pop's honk, and there he was
waving, as he pulled up in our brand-new, right-out-of-the-showroom,
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