Running With Scissors
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Fern, the minister’s wife, is divorced and now lives in Sonoma, California, where she runs a bookstore geared toward the recovery community.
Dorothy, my mother’s former girlfriend, is married and has children. It is my understanding that her husband does not know of her past relationship.
Poo Bear sells RVs in Western Massachusetts. He is married and has children.
My mother lives alone in a small apartment on a river near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border. Because of a major stroke, she is paralyzed on one side of her body and is dependant on aides. She continues to write poetry and has been published in a number of small disability and women’s journals. We are estranged.
In 1998, my father was involved in a serious accident, rolling his Range Rover and breaking his neck. Although mobile, he retired from his position at the University of Massachusetts. Sober for more than twenty years, he leads a quiet life in the same town as my mother, though he lives there with his second wife of nearly twenty years.
My brother is divorced, lives with his longtime girlfriend and has a son. He owns a successful exotic car dealership in Springfield, Massachusetts. A few years ago, I sent him a Nikon as a gift. I had a hunch that he would enjoy taking pictures, safe behind the lens. This turned out to be true, and my brother is now enjoying a blossoming second career as a professional photographer.
Neil Bookman was never seen nor heard from again.