Chanukah is over, but I figured I'd talk about the rest of the contents of gift-box-from-mom 2010.
Night four was a book, Ahab's Wife, that mom had read and liked.
Night five was a braided leather belt, and also a Toronto Blue Jays t-shirt, which mom had bought in Albany, on impulse. "It was just sitting there on the rack, on sale," she told me. "Obviously there's not much demand in New York for that type of thing."
Night six was a v-neck argyle sweater from Old Navy.
Night seven was Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler, an author I accidentally introduced mom to when she asked me to pick her up an audiobook from the Clifton Park-Halfmoon public library and I chose A Slipping Down Life, also by Tyler, because I'd watched the film adaptation of the book on the Sundance channel the day before. It's about a girl who carves a rock musician's name into her forehead with a broken mirror shard, and then somehow ends up marrying him, which I guess would be convenient, because it would mitigate the need to explain the forehead carving. I've never actually read anything by Anne Tyler, though, or mentioned A Slipping Down Life in the several years since the whole audiobook incident. I guess the book must have caught mom's eye.
Night eight was a checked shirt from Old Navy. I think I'm supposed to pair it with the sweater from night six, but I didn't ask mom about that.
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