Re: Call: Aaron/Lin
[The sound of the junk yard drift away and he gets in his car. This kind of conversation warrants privacy.] It’s ridiculous because we’ve had this conversation before. Sort of. [Granted, they were children at the time.] The parents you came from matter about as much as they did when Mom and Dad sat us down to talk about “what adoption means.” [He refrains from the finger quotes, but barely.] Which is to say, they don’t. Sure it’s the physical stuff. The genetics of it. But who you are, how you deal with this, how you deal with these spiders you see? That has nothing to do with this man. Where the spiders came from mean nothing, only how you deal with them. And how you deal with them is you eradicate them. Now you’re losing me with this metaphor but I’m sticking with it because—because we’re already using it. [Sigh, sigh.]
The point is, Lin. No, you can’t unlearn what you’ve already uncovered. Simple. That’s how it is. But you can move beyond it and you really should because in the grand scheme of things, and your house and your room, this man is just one small spider and it can be stepped on.