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Sanchez has no say-so.
The sign in my kitchen window reads NO SOLICITORS. Maybe it should read NO FUNNY BUSINESS. You try to help someone and look what happens to you instead. Lloyd was my one and only to speak and if I miss anything about him it’s not only what people naturally think. A union of thirty years is not built on infatua- tion, let me tell you. It’s something else for sure.
It was a good day that first day, that day I met E. M. Hunter. It wasn’t one of those days I asked myself why my life couldn’t run even with my husband’s or why, if it couldn’t run even, then at least it could be filled up with the children we wanted. We never had any children on account of a horse fell on Lloyd when he was only sixteen years old.
As I finish with the hideaway I find a paper in the crevice of it. A folded letter falls off onto the floor.
I do hereby submit my complete and up to date re- sume. I believe as a sales rep I will be a building block in your organization. Being out in the field, I believe I can understand and fit into the system. It’s not what the Company can do for me but what I can do for the Company. I am looking forward to meeting you in person. Sincerely, E.M. Hunter.
The bathroom water stops running so I do not get a chance to study the contents or the handwriting. I put the letter on the kitchen counter for later after breakfast.
“Don’t,” he says. “Don’t go to anymore trouble over me. Thank you just the same, Mrs. Worley.”
“Sugar,” I say. “That’s what everyone calls me. You can call me by my nickname, Sugar. That’s on account of my folks always called me that and I couldn’t get away from it even when I got married and moved away.”
“Thank you anyways. I’m due in Phoenix. I better get on.”
Even with the coffee aroma, I smell some of Lloyd’s toiletries and the way Lloyd used to smell to me. I nod. “Sure, I understand. You have to see some folks in person.”
“Beg your pardon?”
“It states in your letter,” I say. “It’s right here. I found it in the cushions where you were sleeping. It’s
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and if I miss anything about him it’s not only what people naturally think. A union of thirty years in not built on infatuation, let me tell you. It’s something else for sure.”
loyd was my one
and only to speak
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