My Real Children by Jo Walton EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Jo Walton
- Language: English
- Genre:Alternative History
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VC: 2015
“Confused today,” they wrote on her notes. “Confused. Less confused. Very
confused.” That last was written frequently, sometimes abbreviated by the
nurses to just “VC,” which made her smile, as if she were sufficiently
confused to be given a medal for it. Her name was on the notes too—just
her first name, Patricia, as if in old age she were demoted to childhood, and
denied both the dignity of surname and title and the familiarity of the form
of her name she preferred. The notes reminded her of a school report with
the little boxes and fixed categories into which it was so difficult to express
the real complexity of any situation. “Spelling atrocious.” “Needs to pay
attention.” “Confused today.” They seemed remote and Olympian and
impossible to appeal. “But Miss!” the kids would say in more recent years.
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She would never have dared when she was in school, and neither would the
obedient girls of her first years of teaching. “But Miss!” was a product of
their growing confidence, trickle-down feminism, and she welcomed it even
as it made her daily work harder. She wanted to say it now herself to the
nurses who added to her notes: “But Miss! I’m only a little confused
today!”
The notes hung clipped to the end of her bed. They listed her
medication, the stuff for her heart she had been taking for years since the
first attack. She was grateful that they remembered it for her now, the
abrupt Latin syllables. She liked to check the notes from time to time, even
though the staff discouraged it if they caught her at it. The notes had the
date, which otherwise was hard to remember, and even the day of the week,
which she so easily lost track of here, where all days were alike. She could
even forget what time of year it was, going out so seldom, which she would
have thought impossible. Not knowing the season really was a sign of
severe confusion.
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