Every Time We Say Goodbye (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This earned him a 94 and a trip to the principal’s office, courtesy of Father Croce, on charges of cheating, but Father Dougherty merely asked him a few questions on Roman history and released him, satisfied. It was insulting but also kind of amusing to watch Croce twist himself into a muttering fury (“Studied, my ass!”), trying to figure out how Dean had done it. That evening he cleaned his room and took out the garbage without being told, and asked his father to bring home some iron ore from the plant so he could start his science project (“The Making of Steel”), even though it wasn’t due until April. He found he could forget the box. Not forget, exactly. But he could live with it. The unanswered question, the questionable answer. He didn’t have to figure it out in order to go to school in the morning, or watch Gunsmoke on Saturday night, or eat hot, gooey butter tarts straight out of the oven, or taste the oily, bitter homemade wine that Dave smuggled out of his father’s garage in a jam jar.
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