[August 1995. Exact date unknown.] Michele bought a whole bunch of fruit today. What she does is ask the produce man at the store if he has anything he’s throwing away. He asks if it’s for human or animal consumption. She says animal, but then feeds us on it anyway. I’ve learned to do the same. You can get a whole box of peaches (a bushel or so) for a couple of bucks. And most of them are okay to eat too. Whenever she asks what we need at the grocery store, I say fruit, because we go through it…
[August 1995. Exact date unknown.] Berck, you may be heating and cooling the whole darn neighborhood. I was talking to Jenifer the other day at the kitchen bar thingy. I was in the middle of the story of how I met Eric the Awful for the first time, when she inturrupts, looks me right in the eyes, and says, “Jonah, you may be heating and cooling the whole darn neighborhood.” My face freezes for a moment in a look that has to be as blank as possible before contorting into a human question mark as I squeeze out the word,…