She said that she’d had to take a plane to get us and there hadn’t been any room in the plane on the trip back to take any of our baby things home with her except our old, tattered diaper bag. She explained that she had forgotten our stroller and there hadn’t been time to go back to her sister’s house to get it before the plane left. I was astonished at my momma’s ability to lie, she chattered on in a desultory way saying how she had been surprised how much time it took to get two babies ready for a trip. She told the clerk about how sorry she had been she had left the stroller at her sister’s house when she got to the airport and had to carry us on her hips while she waited for the plane.
The Day’s of his Lives Scene 115
