The Honeymoon's Over
True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce
Chapter One
Thursday
Daniela Kuper
It's 1971 and Ram Dass has recently come out with Be Here Now. You
read it in the Chevy to the sound of sweat plopping on plain brown
pages in the unbreathable southern Illinois summer. You read the
whole thing without stopping, easy because it's mostly pictures and
thoughts you've never seen words for.
This is what you take from the book: Underneath this life, which is
mostly ego and lies, sits another life that smells like sweet peas-a
dormant life that smells like Dad when he was in one of his good
moods doing magic tricks for the family. He could take his thumb
apart, wiggle both halves, and make cousin Johnny cry till he
cemented it back together. He could put the lit part of a cigar
inside his mouth and puff. Sometimes he'd make it disappear. He was
a traveling chocolate salesman, who once gave his paycheck to an
Indian with a sad story. He brought home two gifts you remember: ... read full excerpt from: The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce ebook
