You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
Aimee BenderSometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children...
It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
Aimee BenderHe breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher's heart leaps when he hears the call of the roseate spoonbill, a fluffy pink wader, calling its lilting coo-coo from the mangroves. Check, says the bird-watcher. Sure, said my father, tapping a handful of mail against her back.
Aimee BenderWith my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
Aimee BenderI didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
Aimee Bender…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
Aimee BenderTo see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
Aimee BenderThat's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
Aimee BenderI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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