Rabbit Remembered

anything to hide from him. He says when he's with me his anxieties go away.'

'Well, is that a good reason-?'

'Nelson, no reason is perfect. But then neither are we.'

'O.K., I'll buy that.' Happiness for her is already rising in him, like water trembling upward.

'I have a serious question. Don't be flip, it matters to me. Ever since I was a little girl I've thought if I ever got married it would be in a church, with all the formality.'

Annabelle asks, 'If Billy and I get married, will you give me away?'

Says Nelson, 'Gladly.'

John Updike

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