Till You Hear From Me: A Novel (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
We just stood there for a minute or two, grinning and crying and generally making a spectacle of ourselves. I laid my cheek against the vest of his Sunday suit and he squeezed me tight enough to make up for the ridiculous five months we’d been apart. “Welcome home, daughter,” the Rev was saying over and over. “Welcome home! Welcome home!” Finally, he gave me one more hug and stepped back to give me the once-over that began when he first counted my fingers and toes and continues unabated whenever we lay eyes on each other whether it’s been forty days or forty minutes. Without taking his eyes off me, the Rev took out a big snow-white handkerchief and blew his nose with a majestic honk. “I’ve been missing you,” I said, grinning like a maniac as he folded up the handkerchief and put it in his back pocket for the next wash. “Five months it takes for you to miss me?” He looked at me and shook his head in mock exasperation. “You are as stubborn as your mother.” “Coming from you, that can only be a compliment,”
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