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by Mimi Schmir on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 12:12am
It starts this way. Mr. Handsome comes up to me and says, “Mommy, you know my favorite President is Abraham Lincoln.” To which I reply, “Why, that’s wonderful lovey.” To which he replies, “You know he did the emancipation proclamation.” To which I then say, “It is amazing and historic that we are going to have our first African American president of the United States.” To which he then says, “Can we go?”
Which somehow leads us to the back seat of a car that is driving us from Dulles International Airport towards our nation’s capital at midnight. Me and Mr. Handsome, in the fire-engine-red down coat newly purchased for the occasion (the better not to lose him was my idea) and it is fucking freezing cold. “It’s kind of cold, isn’t it, Mommy?” says Mr. Handsome and I say, “Oh, no, you’re just not used to this weather because you live in L.A.” when I’m really thinking, “History should be confined to warm climates.”
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