Leaving the hospital Grandma Rosa asked, “Say, since they’re running tests on Josepho again tomorrow, I was thinking you and me and your brother could all go to the Italian Festival in Trenton...”
“That’s tomorrow? Sure! I haven’t been there in years, I’d love to go. But I don’t know if Joey will want to. He’s been acting kind of strange lately.”
“Strange?”
“Well yesterday he did the dishes, cleaned all the sinks and counters, mopped the floor-”
“SWEET JESUS, NO!” she gasped, “That is not good! Just say the word and we’ll do it.”
“Do what?”
“Switch you back, of course. If his sudden interest in scrubbing things means what we think it does it’s time to put an end to this little body-swap adventure.”
“Really?! That’s fantastic!”
But why in the next second did the prospect of going back to who I had been suddenly not seem so fantastic?
PLAY . . NICE!
LAIKA PUPKINO ~ 2009
PART ELEVEN: EXIT STRATEGIES
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