aunt ginny. an 87 year old, retired school teacher, she's been blind for the past 15 years, at least. she's lived in the same apartment in great neck, long island for the past 40 or 50 years. until last summer i hadn't been there in about 7 years. memories of ginny's home had always had the sepia tone of nostalgia. as i sat in her living room last summer i realized that that was not nostalgia. it was 40 years of smoke stains on her walls.
december 23rd i get off the train and make the trek up to aunt ginny's. she's considerably smaller than she used to be. now just under 5 feet tall. just under 100lb. she has the table set already and tells me that we're going to have sandwiches for dinner. after our ham and turkey sandwiches we move to the living room where we talk about family, friends, pet peeves, memories. and politics...
ginny: what i don't understand about clinton is how he could have been so damned indiscreet. it was just stupid. what's even more stupid is that i had a friend that said to me "i can't believe he committed sodomy". now i said to her "what do you mean, he committed sodomy?" and she said "well, oral sex, of course." and i said to her "mary, oral sex is not sodomy. don't you know what a blow job is?" well, lisa, i guess she didn't know what a blow job is. which is suprising. she's been married and divorced.
lisa b: whoa.
did i mention aunt ginny is 87?
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