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“We all have our ups and downs,” she said. For a second he thought she meant her salads weren’t consistently successful. “I’ll be honest,” she told him, “there’ve been times when I have wondered if Bob and I would make it. There’s times I feel we’re just hanging in there, you know what I mean? Times I say, ‘Hi, honey, how was your day?’ but inside I’m feeling like a Gold Star mother.”
Macon turned the stem of his glass and tried to think what step he’d missed in her logic.
“Like someone who’s suffered a loss in a war,” she said, “and then forever afterward she has to go on supporting the war; she has to support it louder than anyone else, because otherwise she’d be admitting the loss was for no purpose.”
Excerpt From: Anne, Tyler. “Accidental Tourist.” Random House Publishing Group, 1985-12-18T05:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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