“…the inadequacy of our plans,our contingencies, every missed train, the failed picnics, every lie to a child.”
John Malkovich as F.W.Murnau in The Shadow of the Vampire.
On Mothers’ Day we couldn’t go to my mother’s because of her dogs and my daughter’s allergy. Ditto Fathers’ Day.
We used to have picnics with our dearest friends on Fathers’ Day. The fathers would play tennis. The mothers minded the children and laid out the picnic.
We don’t do that anymore. We rarely see them. We’ve graduated to the one page enclosure within the Christmas card.
The failed picnics…and our contingencies...the shadows of the vampire.
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We used to have picnics with our dearest friends on Fathers’ Day. The fathers would play tennis. The mothers minded the children and laid out the picnic.
We don’t do that anymore. We rarely see them. We’ve graduated to the one page enclosure within the Christmas card.
The failed picnics…and our contingencies...the shadows of the vampire.
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