'This was the start of something new for us.'
When I was 10 years old, my Aunt Janny told me a secret: “I asked your dad which of you he’d choose to be stuck with in a car for 24 hours,” she whispered conspiratorially. By “you,” she had meant me and my four other siblings. “And La,” she said, smacking my arm, “ It’s! He didn’t even have to think about it, he just said, ‘Laura. No question.’” At the time, none of this made much sense to me.
In some ways, my own aspirations to make my dad proud haven’t entirely vanished. I still share my stories when they’re published, and I’m always hoping for some assignment that will bring me to a Formula 1 race or an Eric Clapton concert, simply because those experiences would be thrilling for him. Three months later, COVID hit. I found myself marooned in my sleepy hometown upstate with my dad again, while my mother harbored herself in Massachusetts to help my brother and sister-in-law with their newborn and toddler. A weekly trip to the supermarket made up our drives together, and even then, we didn’t say much. Rigid with anxiety, we were like a pair of bank robbers on the move, communicating mostly with glances:Instead, our evenings became our dedicated time together.
Here we go. This is the question that has always needed to be asked. Here we are—the million dollar moment!!”definitely.’” And that was all it took to open the floodgates. They talked more often and freely than they ever had. “It was fantastic. I got to ask him anything and everything,” she continues.
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