Post by joel marston on Dec 5, 2016 21:42:20 GMT
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_________________________________________________  _________________________________________________  _________________________________________________ "Triplets. Three babies. If that news isn't scary enough, try finding out that they're identical, then look up the odds of survival. They're around ten times more likely to die in infancy. Can you imagine being a mother for the first time and hearing that news? I didn't know how we were going to cope with three in the house, but if we were to lose one... it's unthinkable. I suppose these are the risks you take when you go with IVF. As it happens, the boys were born prematurely but that was the end of their health issues, for the most part. Three identical little boys, Cole first, then Joel, then Leon. I wanted them to have linked names that weren't too matchy matchy, I figured it would be hard enough trying to carve out an identity of your own. Turns out that was never going to be an issue. My boys couldn't be more different from each other, with Cole a pro footballer, Leon a musician and Joel a PI. I'm not surprised, as children they were very distinct from each other, despite looking exactly the same. Cole was the most outgoing, always getting involved in teams and clubs and the first to run to another group of children. Leon was more hesitant, an introvert, happier in the company of one or two others. Then there was Joel. From the day he watched The Lady From Shanghai with his father, I'd lost him to the world of film noir. He was seven! When other mothers had to buy their sons' Spider-Man costumes or football jerseys I had to buy him a little trench coat, and I was fielding concerned calls from the school saying he was calling his teachers 'doll' and refusing to take said trench off. Such a funny little boy. He's not changed much, though I can't say I find it as cute now that it's become a full time profession. Oh, Joel. I wish I knew what went through that head of his. Because he's such a nice boy. Respectful of women, married at twenty-one. Of course I was concerned, we all were. Joel is nothing if not an idealist and that can be blinding. He saw in Zara his perfect femme fatale, and I don't think she had much of a say in her portrayal. Even so, they seemed good together at first. Never one to do things by halves, it made sense to me that Joel would marry his first serious girlfriend, that he'd go play noir full time in New York like he had always said he would. It also doesn't surprise me that he and Zara divorced, the way he is, she probably missed her lines and blew the whole performance. What I don't understand is Zelda. It seems so cruel, and Joel is not cruel. It is funny that the hardboiled world of noir is his favorite, because it very much goes against his nature. Where those detectives are cynical, jaded, emotionally dead, Joel is an optimist, someone who gives everything he does his all, and he's usually emotionally very stable and open. All his failings are those Philip Marlowe would never deal with; he's criminally indecisive, scared of letting people down, cautious to a fault. I suppose it's not so funny as it is understandable, the detective identity is one he can slip into to escape the limitations of his own. I'm very proud of Joel, he's the son I worry about least." jill marston _________________________________________________ |
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