Fredagscitatet, del 61

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Förra veckans text är hämtad från The Tender Bar av JR Moehringer, och stilpoängen går till Snowflake för de båda inläggen.


As I walked in, I saw a horrible sight on my floor. While I'd been out, Jules had knocked over all my things. He had torn up the homework I had left lying on the bed. I would never be able to finish my project on time now. But then I saw something even worse. There, lying on the floor, was my rag doll, its arms and legs ripped off. I dropped to my knees and picked her pieces up. I'd never get another one. Jules never thought to buy me pretty things like that. That doll had been like a miracle to me. It had reminded me that I'd been loved by a mother. Now I was a nothing, a real nobody.
"It's like you're good for one day,", Jules said. He was standing behind me in the doorway, but I didn't turn to look at him. He was trying to keep his voice level, as if he had a very intelligent observation to make. "Then the next day you're bad. Every second day you act up. I have to yell at you and you learn your lesson. You're good for one day and then you go right back to acting up. I don't know why you're like that, but you are. You're taking years off my life."
"Why'd you have to do this to my doll!" I screamed.
Our eyes met, and I saw that he felt terrible for having hurt me like that.
"I'll sew it back together," he promised quietly. "I'll use some good thread. It'll make it stronger than it was before."
I went back outside. It didn't matter what he did with the doll to fix it now. How was I ever going to love that doll after I'd seen it lying mangled and dismembered on the floor? The teenagers who were sitting on the stoop across the street starting twisting and contorting with laughter when I passed by. They'd heard Jules screaming at me from the open window. My dad had just made their day.


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