Mom loved to keep small colorful birds like yellow canaries. Lucinda, since she was six or seven, had a fascination with birds. She would like to set the birds free. She had a really small frame and yet she managed to open the bird cage that hang outside the front door and set the bird free, while mom was at school. She also cut the small ducks out of the neighbor's encyclopedia...
Mom loved animals. She was planning to get a puppy for Lucy. Then, they moved to mom's hometown and left the capital, when there was upheaval in the city due to the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey. There it was that mom got the last bird cage. It was a small bird with some red stripes.
Lucinda opened the cage, gave it a bath with some water using the shower head, and let it free outside the apartment. It certainly flew away. Lucinda wished that she could set mom free too. She used to think that the butcher where she shopped meat for mom, he would be a better partner to mom than dad. If only she had not heard that pastor she sought advice from and left them all, mom would have been alive now well into her seventies. Nonetheless, mom did not like old ages.
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The Heart Goes Last in Chicago
Teen FictionVeronica is in her forties now. She still addresses health concerns at her various jobs in schools. The days of hitchhiking and casual sex are behind her. She moved to a different state in the north. Her dreams of becoming a medical doctor did n...
