Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became otherworldly, retreating into herself, a child of eight again, riding along in her father's Volkswagen van. As she now remembers that day, they stopped and offered a ride to Susan Nason, who lived five houses away. The two girls piled into the back to bounce on the mattress until her father pulled off the road near the reservoir and joined them. Eileen got into the front passenger seat; when she looked back she saw her father holding Susan's hands above her head, "on top of her, her legs spread apart . . . with pelvis against pelvis . . . and Susan saying...
...appearances the Ayalas are not an exploitative family. To them the ethical questions that swirl around them are airy abstractions, not the terrifying reality they daily confront. A frightened Anissa has lately taken to dragging her mattress into her parents' bedroom each night. For her, there is no debate about how her family views soon-to-arrive Marissa. "She's my baby sister," Anissa declares. "And we're going to love her for who she is, not for what she can give me." Who is to say which sister is the luckier...
...time in my life, that I would not be able to fall asleep. I spent my many waking night-time hours yelling frantically at myself: "Sleep! Sleep! Relax! RELAX!" When self-punishment failed to calm me down, I turned on the tape recorder. I paced, manically. I pounded my mattress. I stared into the light bulbs until my eyes watered. I cried, almost...
...their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling hog-tied by their demanding household companion, Mary says of the experience, "I've loved every minute...