{"id":484,"date":"2005-01-15T08:38:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-10-18T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:10:35","slug":"weekend-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/01\/15\/weekend-getaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at the Finlay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painting Emma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s late afternoon, Kate calls needing a ride home and Emma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my navigator as we wend our way through the back roads. <\/p>\n

As pure dialogue, this conversation sounds morbid. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t at all.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My birthday is in five days?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Five days? I thought your birthday was in May?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

I had no idea when her birthday was.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s January.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What are you going to be? Sixteen, seventeen?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, thirteen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

That much I did know. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Emma, Do you dream?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I mean, do you remember your dreams?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No. Do you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I used to remember them better than I do now. I have a recurrent dream where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m lost and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to get where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going and sometimes I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know where it is I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My friend Molly had a dream that lasted three nights.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Three nights? What do you mean? Like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get up in the morning and then that night she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d take up where she left off?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wow. She should write it down. Do you know what it was about?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did you see The Dawn of the Dead?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was like that… .\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With dead people crawling out of graveyards?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dead people that were infected. One of them crawled through a dog door.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And died?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was already dead. The good guys didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think he could crawl through the dog door but he did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And he killed the good guy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah. I died in the third dream.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How did you die?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Spurred on, perhaps, by our discussion, I scored a trifecta this morning. In one dream I was lost AND I was running in molasses. In another I was to give a speech in front of a group of people, but I was in a panic because I had forgotten to prepare. <\/p>\n

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\nPeter, Diane, Eileen and Linda. Moving day, Acton, 1983.
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We’re off to Boothbay Harbor and a night in the Admiral’s Quarters Inn <\/a>. Thank you Auntiesue. <\/p>\n

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\"eileen_peter_gilsum_sm.jpg\"
\nEileen Foley and Peter Miller.
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\nAdam listened to many tales of Peter and Eileen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s year-round living in Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabin on Grok Hill, in Gilsum NH, before he made his first trip past the Preston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, past the wide metal gate, past the tree-ringed field that served as the Rakitty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wedding chapel, down the steep hill and up again, left onto Beech Lane, past the Littel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and finally the long trek up to the hand-crafted cabin<\/a> heated by wood stove and lit by candles. The first words from an uncharacteristically silent Adam as he poked his head into the cabin? \u00c3\u00acWhat a woman!.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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\nEmily Hopkins
\nUnrelated to any of the above. Martha’s Vineyard, summer, 1982
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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at the Finlay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painting Emma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s late afternoon, Kate calls needing a ride home and Emma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my navigator as we wend our way through the back roads. As pure dialogue, this conversation sounds morbid. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t at all. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}