Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do (27 page)
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Authors: Pearl Cleage
Tags: #Fiction, #African American, #General, #Family Life, #Contemporary Women
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B
LUE WAS WAITING OUTSIDE
the auditorium exactly where I'd asked him to meet me. His proud smile told me everything I needed to know, but I wanted to hear it anyway.
“So how'd we do?”
“I couldn't have done it better myself.”
I laughed. “High praise from an emperor.”
He laughed with me. “That was last time around. This time I'm just your humble servant.”
“Good. Then let's go!”
He hesitated. “Aren't you going to stay for Beth's speech?”
“You mean the one where she says she won't be running for governor because nothing is more important to her at this time than getting to know her grandson?”
He grinned. “Yeah, that's the one.”
I grinned back. “I don't have to hear it. I
wrote
it.”
“So where are we going?”
I looked up at him and saw the rest of my life looking back at me through his eyes. “D.C.”
He looked surprised. “Why D.C.?”
“Aren't you the guy who said that if you were patient and lucky, I'd learn to trust you and maybe even fall in love with you again so we could continue our journey together through time and space and many lifetimes like we were supposed to?”
“That's what I said all right,” he said, pleased I had quoted him so exactly.
I took his arm. “Well, then, I think it's time for you to meet my aunt.”
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2003 by Pearl Cleage
Excerpt from Baby Brother's Blues copyright © 2006 by Pearl Cleage
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Published in the United States by One World Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by One World Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2003.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint lyrics:
Hal Leonard Corporation: Excerpt from “You Can't Hurry Love” words and music by Edward Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland. © 1965, 1966 (Renewed 1993, 1994) JOBETE MUSIC CO., INC. All rights controlled and administered by EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC. on behalf of STONE AGATE MUSIC (A Division of JOBETE MUSIC CO., INC.). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission. Excerpt from “Function at the Junction” words and music by Frederick Long and Edward Holland Jr. © 1966 (Renewed 1994) JOBETE MUSIC CO., INC. All rights controlled and administered by EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC. on behalf of STONE AGATE MUSIC (A Division of JOBETE MUSIC CO., INC.). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission. Williamson Music: Excerpt from “My Favorite Things” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright © 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright Renewed. WILLIAMSON MUSIC owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.
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