(DOWNLOAD) "Domestic Relations (Short Story)" by Confrontation # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Domestic Relations (Short Story)
- Author : Confrontation
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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The primary thing she was concerned about, Ada told her lawyer, was that her son grow up to be a man. "A real man," she emphasized, soliciting a sympathetic nod from across the Spartan cherry conference table, which housed only a box of tissues moistened with aloe and a thin Manila folder containing Ada's maiden name. This was the third lawyer Ada had been to but the first woman, and from the moment they met it was clear that they had a match. "Your husband sounds like an a*****e," the first lawyer had said within two minutes of meeting her. "How much does he make a year?" He propped his Bruno Magli shoes up on a rickety glass coffee table in his office, making Ada worry that his oversized feet might plunge right through. By contrast, the second lawyer had been so mousy that he wouldn't even meet Ada's eyes, and when she brought up her husband's ambiguous sexuality he seemed to squirm uncomfortably and his gaze drifted towards a remote corner of the room. Despite the wedding ring on his finger, Ada's intuition told her that he spent his Saturday nights languishing in gay bars in Chelsea, and when she asked if he had any children he muttered something about his wife being "nontraditional." But the third lawyer--Nikki Blasko, whose name somehow suggested to Ada that she could kick ass with a smile--had focused immediately on her son.