The Cilla Rose Affair (35 page)
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Authors: Winona Kent
“I think I must have become an actor,” he said, “so that I could talk to you. So we could have something in common. Besides DNA.”
Evan smiled, and Anthony began to walk again, with his hands clasped behind his back, a small jauntiness in his step. He reached the summit well before his father, and waited for him by the bench.
“London,” he announced, when Evan had, at last, arrived, considerably out of breath, the backs of his legs aching.
“It’s beautiful.”
“Changed a lot in twenty-five years, hasn’t it?”
“More lights,” Evan judged.
“More money,” Anthony replied. “Were you pleased with my performance?”
“Pleased with your performance, pleased with all your help. Couldn’t have done it without you, Anthony. Thank you.”
They stood in silence.
“You were saying.”
“About what?”
“‘Here we are, a couple of chameleons.’”
“Oh. That.”
“Yes, that.”
“It’s all right. It was only a thought.”
Evan waited.
“We’re on opposite sides of a canyon,” Anthony said. “That’s all. A huge, deep slash in the earth…and we want to touch each other—but we can’t. Neither one of us can bring ourselves to hurl a rope bridge over…and stagger across.”
He swallowed. Courage.
“Instead,” he said, slowly, “we send signals to one another, you and me. You’re on that side and I’m on this side and we’re both jumping up and down like a couple of lunatic mime artists.”
He stopped again, and blinked away the tears. He reached out, and drew his father close, clumsily, and was surprised by the strength of the arms that embraced him in return, readily, holding him tight.
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