Of Men and Their Mothers
Chapter One
If you look inside my refrigerator, here's what you'll see: one shriveled lemon, one kiwi-banana yogurt a week past its sell-by date, a bottle of Don Cossack vodka, a five-year-old bag of coffee beans from Brazil. If you pull open the freezer compartment, you'll find two All-White Deluxe Pollock's Potpies so old they qualify for archeological excavation, three ice-encrusted Popsicles, and breast milk in a mayonnaise jar, the Hellmann's label still intact.
No, it's not my breast milk. It's Jack's, or, rather, the property of Jack's client at Somerville Legal Services. Jack is my on-the-way-out boyfriend. The milk belongs to Darlene Lattanzio, whose mother-in-law has custody of Baby Anthony Vincent Lattanzio while the courts and the Department of Social Services decide whether Darlene's an unfit parent. Darlene hates her mother-in-law.
I can empathize. Mine was worse, I told her when she telephoned a few months ago about sending Jack to make a deposit in my breast-milk bank.
"No way," she said.
"You'd better believe it," I said.
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