Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Minka Kelly
- Language: English
- Genre: Biographies of Actors & Actresses
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- Size: 2 MB
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“Oh baby, I have something special in store for you!” Mom gushed. She
hugged her arms close to her chest as if she needed to keep the joy from
bursting through her entire body, like it was a current of energy that pulsed
through her, not always under the influence of her control.
Tonight, she was thrilled about the Top Ramen she was making for
dinner as well as the evening that would follow. It wasn’t exactly Bring
Your Daughter to Work night, but that’s what it was about to become. When
I stood next to her, it was like standing beside a redwood tree, she was so
sinuous and graceful, her head up in the clouds. Now she squatted to my
height and wrapped me in a hug.
I was seven and often tagged along with her to Crazy Girls on La Brea,
just south of Sunset Boulevard, a few blocks from Hollywood’s tourist zone
in the shadows of florid neon and half-acre billboards. Tonight, she wanted
to show me her new act and I was excited to go. It sure beat the usual
routine of being dropped off with neighbors or people I didn’t know, falling
asleep on a stranger’s couch until Mom came to pick me up well after
midnight.
“I’m going to put an egg in your ramen, just how you like it!” she said,
checking on the noodles on the hot plate and opening the minifridge.
Her enthusiasm was always dialed up to ten and she found childlike
eagerness for the smallest goodness. “Oh baby, this is going to be so much
fun!” was her most common refrain, and usually she was right. A trip to the
movies meant ordering absolutely everything at the concession stand: Red
Vines, popcorn, Slurpees, hot dogs, M&M’s. When she had money, a Target
foray was a chance to indulge in new T-shirts, jeans, and toys, or maybe
sneakers from Payless, whatever my heart desired. She loved to say yes to
everything, was like a two-year-old who could mine from even the most
mundane activity an extravagant level of glee.
At thirty-one, she was really just an oversized kid. And I was her
favorite playmate.
We lived in the storage room of an apartment complex where we’d once
had our own unit, a cut-rate offer bestowed on us by the landlady when
Mom ran out of money to pay rent. There was barely enough room to walk
between the mattress and the wall in the 125-square-foot box, but as she
shimmied and pranced around the room, the Christmas lights she’d put up
to make the place feel homey reflected in her tousled, done-up hair. I
beamed.
She fixed dinner between daubs of makeup, turning to make faces at
herself in the mirror. Singing and dancing, she flung the hem of her silk
robe into the air, filling our tiny place with her bright mood. I was certain
magic dust floated around her.
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