19 May
Last night I got home from rehearsal (which went well, though I was yelled at for not knowing my lines) and called Mom to tell her that I was home in time for Caroline so she didn't have to tape it , and somehow she started talking about the war.
She grew up in occupied Belgium, you see, and she really has never talked about it, but suddenly all these stories came pouring out.
O, I remember how it started. She told a story about how when she was a kid she came back to boarding school after a week-end at home and proudly announced that she had visited a Protestant's house, and the other girls gathered around asking what was it like? How do they live? And my mother said "They live just like we do!!"
It was really interesting hearing all this stuff, you know. I mean, I knew some of it, but she really has never spent alot of time telling these stories, about how there were German soldiers living in the house because her mother refused to leave, so they just lived with them, and how her step-father was arrested for awhile because he gave a resistance man a gun, but somebody pulled some strings and got him out, and how the electricity and the gas was turned off every night, so if she still had homework to do they would have to do it by candlelight, which is why she cannot stand candlelight to this day unless electric lights are on at the same time.
I will always regret never going through with my plans to interview my father on tape. I meant to do it Christmas 1994, but I ran out of time so I just figured that I'd do it the next year, but the next year he had just almost died at Thanksgiving, so I decided to wait, and the next year he did die, so I missed my chance, and I don't really remember the stories about his childhood and his family anymore.
I'm not going to miss out on Mom's, though!
So yesterday on the radio I heard this commercial that said "Tonight, on the season enders of Suddenly Susan and Caroline in the City, Susan and Jack get together! So do Caroline and Richard! They kiss and everything!"
I guess they decided to throw that "Will they or won't they" stuff right out the window.
So, last night they showed an old Later with Bob Costas because Jerry Seinfeld was on and this was an interview he did with Bob right as the show began, and I know, of course I know, that the only reason they aired it is because of the whole Seinfeld-mania thing, but as far as I'm concerned it just really showed what a great show Later used to be when Costas was on the show, and what a beacon of mediocrity it is now.
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