And my other cousin has been wanting to go back to college for around seven years.
And my dad said once that they were very jealous of my brother because he had a shot in life and was actually doing something about it.
But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud.
At one point, my brother made a very big play on third down, and everyone cheered even though some of us had already seen the game before.
I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling
even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange
because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn’t get hurt.
My great aunts and my cousins and their children and everyone were also smiling. Even my sister.
There were only two people who weren’t smiling. My grandfather and I.
My grandfather was crying. The kind of crying that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed.
I thought about him going into my mom’s room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card
and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother.
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