When Gerald doesn’t come home for dinner, she and scream at her for not keeping his dinner warm. The Voice keeps telling her — warning her in that tone it uses whenever it wants to make a point — that Gerald will still be expecting his dinner no matter what time he gets home. She waits until 9:00 o’clock before she allows Dan to sit at the dinner table.
They sit across from each other with a table full of food between them — more food than either of them can eat: roasted, herbed potatoes, pork chops, with left over chicken, and stuffing from the night before; fresh, home made bread, and rolls; peas, carrots, and creamed corn; there’s a salad, gravy, and mashed potatoes from last night as well — and she only comes in from the kitchen and sits down when Dan tells her he isn’t going to eat until she does.
“Do you think something happened?” she asks at last, reaching for a dinner roll.
“The truck probably broke do…
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