She woke in the sunlight of a new day. She sat up looking
around at her possessions. Where did one start disassembling one’s life?
Vanessa knew that she would have to approach this as if she were going to be
leaving the country for an extended trip.
As she
sat at her kitchen table listening to George Harrison promise that the sun was
coming up, she thought about what she would need to do to prepare. Maybe she
should get a book- a guide- for heaven’s sake! A guide? Is this where William
Shatner dives through the window to offer a travel guide for leaving everything
you have ever known if only you use Priceline to book the airfare?
Now how
to go about it? She paused to finish her Aptiva yogurt, strawberry flavor, and
looked around the condo’s main room. She stood up and walked around inspecting
her furnishings, CD collection, the laughably small DVD collection, TV, VCR
Combo DVD player which had a small amount of dust coating it from all the use it
was getting. The books on various shelves strategically placed to cover flaws
in the paint and her mistakes attempting to disguise the structural flaws
behind them. She doubted that there would be much space left at her parents for
storage. She really doubted that storage would be much of an option as she just
could not envision that she would come back or have any use for them should she
come back. Could she live with that? Not coming back. No answers came as she
stood there in the center of her living room spoon in hand.
Am I
ready?
No.
Well I
best be about it then.
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