“This was before your diagnosis?” I asked. “Right, well, there was that, too.” He smiled with half his mouth.
The day of the existentially fraught free throws was coincidentally also my last day of dual leggedness.
I had a weekend between when they scheduled the amputation and when it happened. My own little glimpse of what Isaac is going through.”
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him.
I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice.
I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws.
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles
with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names,
because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus?
Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel. “Do you have siblings?” I asked.
“Huh?” he answered, seeming a little distracted. “You said that thing about watching kids play.”
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