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Minna comes through the kitchen, flinging open the door as though
expecting several dozen guests to jump out and yell, “Surprise!”
“Jesus Christ” is the first thing she says.
“It isn’t,” Sandra says. “It can’t be.”
But it obviously is: there is no mistaking Minna, even after so many
years. Sandra claims it has been exactly a decade; I think it has been a little
longer than that.
Minna is changed, but she is still Minna: the tangle of long hair, now
lightened; the haughty curves of her cheekbones; the eyes, vivid, ocean
colored. She is just as beautiful as ever—maybe even more so. There’s
something hard and terrifying about her now, like a blade that has been
sharpened to a deadly point.
“Jesus Christ,” she says again. She is standing in the open doorway, and
for a moment the smell of Outside reaches me: clover, mud, and mulch;
honeysuckle that must still be growing wild all over the yard.
For a brief moment, I am alive again, and kneeling in the garden: new
spring sunshine; cool wind; a glistening earthworm, turned out of the earth,
surprised.
A girl, probably six, barrels past Minna and into the house.
“Is this Grandpa’s house?” she asks, and reaches out toward the kitchen
table, where a coffee mug—one of the nurse’s mugs, half full, which has
begun to stink of sour milk—has been left.
Minna grabs the girl’s arm, pulls her back. “Don’t touch anything,
Amy,” she says. “This whole place is crawling with germs.” The girl, Amy,
hangs back obediently, while Minna takes several tentative steps into the
kitchen, keeping one hand in front of her, as though she’s walking in the
dark. When she is within reach of the kitchen table, she makes a sudden
grab for it, letting out a noise somewhere between a gasp and a laugh.
“This thing,” she says. “It’s even uglier than I remembered. Christ, he
couldn’t get rid of anything.”
“Well, that settles that,” Sandra says gleefully. “Minna’s grown into a
hopeless bitch. I always knew she would.”
“Be quiet, Sandra.” In the many, many years I have been here, in this
house, in the new body, my faith in the Christian conception of the afterlife
has been considerably taxed. But there is no doubt about one thing: having
Sandra with me is hell.
“Any girl that pretty . . .”
“I said be quiet.” Poor Minna. I can’t say she was my favorite. But I felt
sorry for her all the same.
Amy starts to come out of the doorway, but Minna puts up a hand to stop
her. “Honey, stay there, okay? Just hang on a second.” Then she calls out, a
little louder, “Trenton! You’ve got to come see this.”
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