Then, she took me down to the import section and told me about “real” alternative music.
Then, she took me to the folk section and told me about girl bands like the Slits.
She said she felt really bad she hadn’t gotten me anything for Christmas, and she wanted to make it up to me.
Then, she bought me a record by Billie Holiday and asked if I wanted to go to her house and listen to it.
So, I was sitting alone in her basement while she was upstairs getting us something to drink.
And I looked around the room, which was very clean and smelled like people didn’t live there.
It had a fireplace with a mantel and golf trophies. And there was a television and a nice stereo.
And then Mary Elizabeth came downstairs with two glasses and a bottle of brandy.
She said that she hated everything her parents loved, except for brandy.
She asked me to pour the drinks while she made a fire. She was very excited, too, which was strange because she’s never like that.
She kept talking about how much she loves fires and how she wanted to marry a man and live in Vermont someday,
which was strange, too, because Mary Elizabeth never talks about things like that.
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