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Long ago, back in 2000, I was living in a bizarre, ancient (and for those reasons and others, beloved to me) apartment on Bomar St. I was in very bad financial straits and preparing to move to Dallas. I think my power might have been cut off at that point, but fortunately it was a very nice February.
But anywaaaay, I was dating a guy called Bluebeard (really! He was a pirate!) And Bluebeard was at my house one day, I think we were eating sandwiches and packing my stuff between bouts of fucking, and my mother showed up unexpectedly. My phone was cut off so the only way she had to get in touch with me was to just show up.
I let her in and B was sitting on the couch. I introduced them and she, knowing I was moving to Dallas, said to him (in a sort of questioning way, but it wasn't really a question) "Oh, so you live in Dallas?" He laughed and said, "Uh, no." I remember being really, really disgusted that my mom would a)assume/decide that I was moving to DFW because of a man, even though I had told her I was moving because I was broke, and b)think it was reasonable to assume that because she met a man at my apartment, I was moving to another city to be with that man. God, she's so stupid.
But anyway, what reminded me of all that and was the point of this entry, was that after he left he said "That's your mom?" and I affirmed that she was. He looked really puzzled, like he was trying to figure out something, and then he said, "Are you sure?" I laughed and he said "I just can't imagine that you came out of her."
I took that as a great compliment.
But anywaaaay, I was dating a guy called Bluebeard (really! He was a pirate!) And Bluebeard was at my house one day, I think we were eating sandwiches and packing my stuff between bouts of fucking, and my mother showed up unexpectedly. My phone was cut off so the only way she had to get in touch with me was to just show up.
I let her in and B was sitting on the couch. I introduced them and she, knowing I was moving to Dallas, said to him (in a sort of questioning way, but it wasn't really a question) "Oh, so you live in Dallas?" He laughed and said, "Uh, no." I remember being really, really disgusted that my mom would a)assume/decide that I was moving to DFW because of a man, even though I had told her I was moving because I was broke, and b)think it was reasonable to assume that because she met a man at my apartment, I was moving to another city to be with that man. God, she's so stupid.
But anyway, what reminded me of all that and was the point of this entry, was that after he left he said "That's your mom?" and I affirmed that she was. He looked really puzzled, like he was trying to figure out something, and then he said, "Are you sure?" I laughed and he said "I just can't imagine that you came out of her."
I took that as a great compliment.