Tastes Like Candy by Ivy Tholen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Ivy Tholen
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- Genre: Horror Comedy
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Mrs. Murphy, my neighbor, perched in the big bay window next
to her front door every afternoon to wait for the mail. She’s
done this as long as I can remember. Even when I was little, it
struck me as odd.
“Why does she stare at her mailbox every day?” I asked my mother one
day after kindergarten. “Is she waiting for something?”
“Probably,” she said, then immediately changed the subject by asking
what I wanted for my after school snack.
“Peaches and walnuts,” I said.
Peaches and walnuts it was.
A few years later, I asked again.
“Mom, Mrs. Murphy is in the window. Has she been waiting for the
same letter for seven years?”
“Please leave that old woman alone, Violet. Worry about yourself.” Her
voice wavered slightly, just enough for me to drop the subject.
I found out the truth my Freshman year of high school.
Mrs. Murphy waited around for her mail because she had nothing else
to do.
Mr. Murphy died before we moved in. They had a son, but he walked
away from their family and didn’t visit often. She never left her house, so
the only regular human contact she had was from our mail carrier.
“She doesn’t have anyone, does she?” I asked my mom.
“No.”
“Is that going to be you someday?” I asked. I’d planned to go away to
college. She’d raised me alone; my father didn’t want to be a dad, and she
never had other kids.
“I’ve got your grandparents, I’ve got friends, and even if you’re gone,
you’re not going to abandon me, are you?”
I shook my head. “I’ll come to visit, and you’ll come to visit.”
“I don’t know if I can handle that horrible Arizona heat,” she said,
smiling.
Even then, I’d decided to attend Desert Springs University in Phoenix, a
small school with one of the best music composition programs in the
country. I played violin – first chair since sixth grade – and I wanted nothing
more than to write music for movies. As a kid, my favorite film was a
cartoon about a kangaroo and a silly sailor called Story Time. I ran around
singing the theme for years. Annie Wood, the composer, was a DSU
alumna. She was my hero; I had no other choice but to follow in her
footsteps.
My future was set in stone by kindergarten.
Or so I thought.
Kids in my class started getting college acceptance letters during the
spring of our Junior year. The first person was Claire Smithson. Claire was
swim team captain, water polo team captain, and softball team co-captain,
as well as Vice President of the Student Athlete Association. She got a fullride scholarship to swim for her first choice school. College was an
afterthought for her; she needed a place to train for the Olympics.
Letters really poured in over the summer. Each time I found out another
classmate had been accepted, my heart dropped. Desert Springs was the
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