PLOT

 

He starts to remember his past live in a job interview. He remembers how his friends had accidents such as Timmy Hughes was drunk and unluckily Timmy died, in this moment Timmy went to get married with Ginnie Foot. The Ginnie’s brother had a cardiac arrest an outdoor concert or his cousin Marlin flipped his car into oncoming traffic.

The next month, July, he began to meeting with other alcoholics in a meeting. In these meetings he met to Betsey and every night went out with them to dinner. In September, they wanted live together and were looking for a new house.

He began to distance himself from his family and his friends. Anthony became a vegetarian like Betsey.

After some months, Betsey decided take her grandmother’s offer and go back to nursing school in Oregon and left Anthony who moved to Oakland and became interested in his physical self and the vegetarian diet.

In October, he bumped into Ginnie and convinced to move in with hi and he fall in love again. They don’t have sex but something greater than sex, the seventh chakra. In February, Ginnie left too and Anthony moved to near People’s Park and found a job as a copyeditor. But finally he buys a house in Redwood City

         Anthony knows that those people he will never see again but it doesn’t make him feel bad.

 

 

 

 

 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Mónica Panadero Sayas
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