For One More Day
For One More Day内容简介
'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.
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When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
Maybe it's like my old man said: You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.
"Things can be fixed," she said.
He is respecting the authority of my coach, I am respecting the authority of my father , and this is how the world makes sense, all of us behaving like men.
Going back to something is harder than you think.
"The years pass." "Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley?" "It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it."
"It's such a big world," she'd say, wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere."
I lost both parents on the same day, one to shame, one to shadow.
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