The Bruise
Where Jo Beth first notices something wrong.
Where Jo Beth first notices something wrong.
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| It was 1981. Jo Beth had just moved to Los Angeles and found a really nice apartment in Mar Vista ("Sea View"). There was a sunny courtyard with a beautiful clean pool, and glorious purple morning glories just outside her window. There was the lovely whooshing sound of the nearby ocean. (Even after Jo Beth found out that it was the whooshing sound of the nearby freeway, she pretended it was the ocean.) On her first day in the new apartment, Jo Beth lay down on her new bed to relax. Hmmm...that was odd: The back of her head hurt like there was a bruise on it, on one side. She didn't remember bruising it. Oh, well, it would go away. It didn't, but she got used to it. It made her feel like The Princess and The Pea. |
