Alexander Gregory's Short Story 'Happy New Year'
Happy New Year
I plunged into the work and tried to spend most of my time in the court because there I was distracted by the cases and the people as well. Mostly I hided in to background, listened to my colleagues problems, and added my thoughts once in a while. I went with some of them even to the cinema only that I did not have to think about Solomon Lewis.
One Friday, Evelyn joined me while lunch.
“Judy, how are you?” she asked and I knew promptly that she did not meant it. Evelyn was one of those persons which are very superficial.
“Fine.” I answered simply and Evelyn smiled a bit as I predicted. She did not even notice that I did not respond the smile.
“How will you spend the holidays?” she said to preserve the conversation.
“Huh?” I looked up surprised.
“The Christmas holidays! What are you going to do?”
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The first thing I noticed was the date. Christmas as well as Hannukah was already over and I had had no tree at all. I really should go out more. The second thing was that Alexander made progresses and his view of several things changed a lot. It was the third thing that made me curious. Alexander Gregory wrote about me – indirectly but still about me, Solomon Lewis daughter.
“...every year he buys her flowers for Hannukah...daughter doesn’t love him...” The lines that he wrote were hard and horrible direct. Maybe his daughter doesn’t know him, I wanted to shout. I did not know that he stayed at this very nursing home; I did not know that he came back to New Jersey at all. The only thing in which I was sure was that I want to see him. I wanted to see my father because that was the very truth. I could not change it but Solomon Lewis was my father.
Through tea time I decided to visit him. I would go to the nursing home, ask for Mr Lewis, and then I would show him my opinion. It was an easy thing but when I thought a bit more about it the things got more complicated. What was when he did not recognise
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