There’s No Coming Back from This by Ann Garvin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Ann Garvin
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TEAM LIVELY
I half jogged, half walked to catch up with my seventeen-year-old daughter in
Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, giving myself a pep talk. You are good at
pivoting. You are the pivot. Be the pivot. I dodged a drug-sniffing dog who
lifted his head as I slid by. For all I knew, my nervous energy could be
detected, and I’d be labeled as a threat to national security. If I was detained
and strip-searched, my ungroomed body hair alone would trigger alarms. No
one would be the same after that—and that was the last thing in the world I
wanted. The very last thing.
If I kept my anxiety in check, my secrets stowed, Robyn would spend
her summer unaware of the mess I’d made of our lives. By the time she
returned for college, I’d have a solid plan for the IRS debts, our house back in
our name, and money for her to start college. The only evidence of a struggle
would be a few gray hairs on my head, which I could dye.
“Robyn, did you weigh your luggage? It costs a ton if it goes over fifty
pounds.”
“It’s at forty-eight,” she said over her shoulder. “I was careful.”
Of course she’d checked. We were cautious people who didn’t like
surprises.
It was May, and Robyn had graduated valedictorian along with sixteen
other valedictorians—don’t get me started. And on graduation day she’d been
brimming with confidence and possibility. Today, though, she looked young
and vulnerable. When a neighbor recommended her for a nanny position in
the Big Apple, the job sounded like the perfect summer experience before
starting nursing school in the fall. Now, faced with the unknowns of a big
city, a new family, and three solid months away from home, she was like a
cat skidding on a slick floor toward a swimming pool.
“It’s normal to be nervous about change,” I said, tucking a strand of her
silky hair behind her ear.
“I’m going to miss everything,” she said, her brown eyes wide.
Robyn didn’t realize how true that statement was. She’d miss IRS calls
where I’d use my high-pitched stress voice begging for dispensation, pleas to
the mortgage lender for a loan deferment, and the final gasps of our family
business finally being kicked to the curb. She’d miss witnessing her mother
trying again and again to get in touch with the accountant who’d pocketed all
our money and applying for jobs that wouldn’t make a dent in the debt in
time for anything.
I needed to focus on what my daughter was really saying—we weren’t
talking about me here. She’d miss tubing with her friends for the hundredth
time, sitting in basements giggling and flirting with the same boys she’d gone
to grade school with. High school was over and adulthood was on the way,
and I knew she felt that loss, as I did.
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