I fall asleep when I read sometimes. Not out of boredom, but because the only time I have to read these days is at bedtime. I think I may have fallen asleep while reading Chapter 19. Moonie has left her husband. She’s depressed. She doesn’t want to leave the apartment above the diner. Everything is hazy. Papi and Timber bring her food and magazines. Papi tells Moonie that he thinks she will be fine.
I looked up but did not say anything. I could hear him, but nothing was getting through the haze around me. It felt like the whole world was bright headlights and there was this early morning fog in my apartment and I wasn’t going to see anything until it was too late, the car would be right in front of my face. “Should I call a doctor?” said Timber. Somehow the words came out of me. ”I am going to be fine,” I said. I watched as the words pushed their way through the fog. They were colored fluorescent pink.
In my dream, this scene became larger than life and I could totally feel Moonie’s despair. I could really see the words pushing through the fog in fluorescent pink. Like a highlighter marker. But in my dreamy memory, the words are: everything is going to be fine. I could picture it so clearly, that bright pink. When I read the book a second time, I of course discovered that my memory was a bit incorrect. But the pink words floating in the fog were still there.
