Another
anniversary! Five years ago today .... from page 128:
“On Thursday September 24th
we wanted something different to do. What about a movie? What was playing? Not
much. Some miles east of Bethpage we found a theater playing movies from the past
summer. We found the theater online and the only thing that we wanted to see
was “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”.
I was in a sour mood after
no-baby-on-our-anniversary. So much so my Facebook post that morning quoted Lawrence
Later that morning, our anticipation
of the movie was made known to our Facebook friends.
Mike: “It has come to this: we are
going to see an afternoon matinee of Harry Potter and the Last Temple of the
Crystal Jedi, or whatever the hell it is…”
Esther: “…and Mike are going to go
see the new Harry Potter movie – hopefully this will “induce” a phone call. If
not, I’ll finally get to see the movie.”
Mike: “Oh Lord, if you are a kind
and benevolent God please let us get the phone call before I have to sit
through – er, rather – before we get to the theater!”
The theater was in a plaza with a
Barnes & Noble and other shops. We stopped in the book store until it was
time for the movie.
Esther’s cell phone rang as we
stepped out of the car in the theater parking lot. “It’s the attorney!” Esther
said. Valerie’s attorney!
I stood next to the driver’s side
door; Esther by the passenger door with the phone on her ear. “Uh-huh…”
“Uh-huh … That’s good…”
By this time I was trembling and
smoke was coming out of my ears. “For god’s sake provide some exposition!!”
Esther shook her head. I took this
to mean no baby news. After the call Esther said he was calling to give us an
update. After the Sunday night fiasco he probably decided some kind of control
and oversight was needed. He was right. He was a week too late, but he was
right.
“He said Valerie was feeling just
fine.”
“Oh goodie,” I said without further
comment. We were still standing beside the car.
“He said he was sorry for our
extended stay, but we were going to go home with a baby.”
...
“Twenty one dollars!?”
“That’s total,” said the lady in the
ticket booth.
“You think I’d be more
outraged if it was twenty-one each?
Is Rowling going to sit next to me and narrate the damn thing!?”
Popcorn and two drinks cost even
more than that. They had to have some way to pay for the mortgage on the theater.
The place was immense! The auditorium was the size of a small baseball park.
The chairs were larger and more comfortable than mine at home. Esther and I
could barely reach to hold hands during the movie. Sweet!
Three hours later, after a myriad of
commercials, previews and the main attraction, I saw "Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood formerly known as Prince". I haven't been this lost since I saw
... well ... "Lost". The bit after the credits was cool though -
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury invites Harry to join the Avengers. I tease — the movie was pretty good, but it
took Esther explaining most of the back-story to me on the way home to
understand it. It's getting to the point in the series that non-fans of the
books should probably just stay home. Alan Rickman’s revelation that he is the
half-blood prince almost seemed tacked on at the last minute, "Oh, shoot!
We'd best explain the mystery of the title of the movie. At the time the best
analogy I can come up with is if Lucas called the first Star Wars movie
"Attack of the Sandpeople" —yes, but it was so dwarfed by the
incidents of the rest of the movie as to be incidental.
Later I thought of a better analogy
– what if the book was called "Harry Potter and the Potions Class".
And yes I gave away the secret of
the movie – it was from 2009 for god’s sake, chill out! Rosebud is a sled;
Darth Vader is Luke’s father; the chick on “Crying Game” was a man and Norman
Bates’ mother is dead.
So there.
Esther checked her phone all through
the movie, dinner that night and throughout the evening. No emails, no messages.
No baby. Not today.”
***
“Abby’s
Road, the Long and Winding Road
Join
Mike and Esther as they go through IUIs and IFVs, as they search for an
adoption agency, are selected by a birth mother, prepare their house, prepare
their family, prepare themselves and wait for their daughter to be born a thousand
miles from home.
Abby’s Road is available at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Abbys-Road-Long-Winding-Adoption/product-reviews/0692221530/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_recent?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
at Barnes and Noble here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abbys-road-the-long-and-winding-road-to-adoption-and-how-facebook-aquaman-and-theodore-roosevelt-helped-michael-curry/1119971924?ean=9780692221532
and at Smashwords here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/457270
Copyright 2014 Michael Curry
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