![]() And some damn truths shouldn’t be spoken out loud, or the Devil will hear, and then he’ll come for you. “There’s truths and then there’s truths, Violet. She had given me those blue eyes, and her blond hair as well.įreddie put her wrinkled hands on mine. It’s the truth.”įreddie gave me a sharp look then, her Dutch eyes a bright, bright blue despite her age. “And I don’t care what the Devil thinks about it. The fall didn’t kill me, if that’s what he’d wanted, but I knocked out two teeth and got a gash in my forehead that bled like hell. “Luke pushed me down this damn staircase once,” I said, still looking at the marble steps. I remember thinking that the staircase must be getting old, like her. There were black veins running through it, and they looked like the blue varicose veins on Freddie’s white legs. I remember I was staring at the pink marble of the grand old staircase as we walked up together. “You stop fearing the Devil when you’re holding his hand.”įreddie said this to me, when I was little.Įveryone called my grandmother by her nickname, even my parents, because, as she put it, Freddie, short for Fredrikke was her name. ![]()
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