NINETEENThe email was unexpected and frankly startling.
Sandie, your dad and I are back in Moscow and we have internet. No phone yet so don’t call us we’ll call you when we’re able. Just letting you know we are going to be back home for Christmas make sure the house is clean okay? If you let any friends move in make them go away unless its Ignacio have you married him yet? When we get home I will make borscht.
Also, call the accountants make sure there is still enough for property taxes things did not go so well so we might have to find a smaller house. No worries not for a while though.
Love your mom.
Sandie regarded the computer screen first without feeling, then with a vague and nameless irritation.
“Great,” she said aloud, and she left the computer right there while she drove John
