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- Author: Stephen King
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October 17, 2012
It’s an old city, and no longer in very good shape, nor is the lake beside which
it has been built, but there are parts of it that are still pretty nice. Longtime
residents would probably agree that the nicest section is Sugar Heights, and
the nicest street running through it is Ridge Road, which makes a gentle
downhill curve from Bell College of Arts and Sciences to Deerfield Park, two
miles below. On its way, Ridge Road passes many fine houses, some of which
belong to college faculty and some to the city’s more successful businesspeople
—doctors, lawyers, bankers, and top-of-the-pyramid business executives.
Most of these homes are Victorians, with impeccable paintjobs, bow
windows, and lots of gingerbread trim.
The park where Ridge Road terminates isn’t as big as the one that sits splat
in the middle of Manhattan, but close. Deerfield is the city’s pride, and a
platoon of gardeners keep it looking fabulous. Oh, there’s the unkempt west
side near Red Bank Avenue, known as the Thickets, where those seeking or
selling drugs can sometimes be found after dark, and where there’s the
occasional mugging, but the Thickets is only three acres of 740. The rest are
grassy, flowery, and threaded with paths where lovers stroll and benches
where old men read newspapers (more and more often on electronic devices
these days) and women chat, sometimes while rocking their babies back and
forth in expensive prams.
There are two ponds, and sometimes you’ll see men
or boys sailing remote-controlled boats on one of them. In the other, swans
and ducks glide back and forth. There’s a playground for the kiddies, too.
Everything, in fact, except a public pool; every now and then the city council
discusses the idea, but it keeps getting tabled. The expense, you know.
This night in October is warm for the time of year, but a fine drizzle has
kept all but a single dedicated runner inside. That would be Jorge Castro, who
has a gig teaching creative writing and Latin American Lit at the college.
Despite his specialty, he’s American born and bred; Jorge likes to tell people
he’s as American as pie de manzana.
He turned forty in July and can no longer kid himself that he is still the
young lion who had momentary bestseller success with his first novel. Forty is
when you have to stop kidding yourself that you’re still a young anything. If
you don’t—if you subscribe to such self-actualizing bullshit as “forty is the
new twenty-five”—you’re going to find yourself starting to slide. Just a little at
first, but then a little more, and all at once you’re fifty with a belly poking out
your belt buckle and cholesterol-busters in the medicine cabinet. At twenty,
the body forgives. At forty, forgiveness is provisional at best. Jorge Castro
doesn’t want to turn fifty and discover he’s become just another American
manslob.
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