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newspaper sitting on it. I hadn’t noticed it before or I would have already looked through it. “It’s from yesterday, but at least you’ll be able to get some current information from it.” She handed me the paper and I pored over the headlines.
      Nothing good stared back at me. We’re in a recession, we’re still in Iraq. Everything looked about the same.
      I scanned the top of the paper. Yep, September 21, 2011. I flopped back on the pillow and closed my eyes. I just wanted to rest my brain. I’m not ready to deal with this yet. A few seconds later I heard the rattle of the lunch cart down the hall, sleep would have to wait.
      “Honey, are you feeling better?” My mother had come in without me noticing. I braced myself for any possible surprises before I opened my eyes.
      “Yeah Mom, I’m feeling a lot better. Thanks for coming.” Gloria had added some blonde highlights to her hair since I had seen her last but I didn’t notice anything drastic.
      “Well, Ethan called and told me you had a head injury so I just hopped in the car and got on the road. You look okay, though, besides the bruise on the side of your face.” She sounded almost disappointed that I wasn’t wrapped in bandages and in traction.
      “I am having a bit of a problem. Evidently, I’ve got some sort of amnesia.”
      Gloria looked at me like I was kidding at first. A second later she looked aghast. “Amnesia, what do you mean? You know who I am. What have you forgotten?”
      “The last two years, apparently. I don’t remember anything after 2009.”
      She just sat there with a strange look on her face as I struggled to find something to say. We didn’t have some bosom buddy type relationship like some mothers and daughters do. We pretty much left each other alone until the holidays or some crisis. Well, here’s a crisis. Crap . Unfortunately, she just doesn’t have it in her to make me feel better.
      Just then I heard the cart stop outside the door. An orderly (well, I guess he was an orderly, he didn’t look old enough to have gone through any kind of medical training) poked his head in.
      He smiled at me and he looked so hilarious in his hairnet that I couldn’t resist grinning back at him. “You didn’t fill out your lunch card this morning. Do you want meatloaf or the chicken cutlet?” Hmm, choices.
      “I guess the meatloaf.” He went to the cart and brought over a tray that had a dish covered with a plastic dome, a little milk carton like you get in elementary school, and a pudding cup. Wow, they go all out at Seattle General.
      “Thanks.” He left and I started in on my food so that I didn’t have to speak to my mother. It was surprisingly good.
      “So I guess you don’t remember that I got divorced from Bill last year, huh?” Oh yeah, my mom was still sitting in the chair. I looked up at this new revelation.
      “You divorced Bill? Why?” Bill was actually a good guy. This hit me out of left field. I took another bite of my meatloaf. It needed salt. I found the tiny paper packets of salt and pepper. As I waited for my mother to answer me I ripped it open and the salt spilled over the entire plate. Dang it.
      “I just got tired of all the boredom. He never wanted to go out and do anything. He wanted to stay home and work in the yard.” She said it like it was a crime. Poor Bill was on the road for years as a salesman and finally, when he gets a chance to be at home, Gloria dumps him?
      I threw my arm over my eyes. I really couldn’t deal with this right now. Why had Ethan called her? Things must have seemed pretty dire this morning.
      “Ooh Ethan. It’s nice to see you again.” Mom’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I moved my arm so that I could see him. The door was still open from the lunch delivery so I hadn’t heard him come in. My stomach flipped over. Wow, I haven’t felt the butterflies since high school.
      “Hello Gloria. How was your drive?” He