So earlier I sent my sister a MySpace message to ask what mom was doing because I needed to call her. Here is an edited (only took out the irrelevent parts) of my exchange with my awesome baby sister:
CrackerjackSis: speaking of which, is it weird that i feel like Zooey is our family combined? I kept thinking it when I was reading that story
me: like Franny and Zooey? Salinger?
CJSis: yeah
me (later): Mom just told me that she couldn’t ever understand what Seymour’s problem was, that she always wanted to live with the Glass family. I told her apparently she’d managed to make her own Glass family.
CJSis: Yeah. I read the two stories like 4 months between each other and I totally forgot the whole story (I don’t even remember if they explain Seymour in Franny) but for most of Buddy’s letter I thought Seymour was his boyfriend.
AHAHHAHA! Seriously, she’s like the best teenager ever. And she’ll be here in two weeks! I will be smarter when she leaves. That’s just how it goes!
July 2, 2008 at 1:12 pm
She really is brilliant! And she’s coming to visit!!! Yay! Maybe I’ll meet her this time. I’m thinking of bringing the furniture in two weeks. It might correspond to the same time she’s there. BTW, tell Holls I miss her. I need to call her.