'I just don't feel the same way other people do
about stuff', said Jenny sadly.
'People don't have to agree about
everything', Jenny's mother reassured.
'No Mom', said Jenny testily, 'I mean I
don't feel like others feel. I don't have feelings like them.'
'Feelings?' Jenny's mother intoned.
'Yeah, people feel things. They really
feel things. They fall really hard in love for each other and feel
really strongly about wars and stuff. They go crazy. I don't have
those feelings, at least not so much.'
'And how does that make you feel
honey?'
Jenny glanced up at her mother. Their
eyes briefly met to acknowledge the irony. Then Jenny dropped her
head again.
'I guess it makes me feel lonely. I
guess that's the only feeling I have. The lonely feeling.'
Jenny's mother looked at her sad
daughter. A curtain of hair spilled from Jenny's head onto the table,
hiding her face. Was she crying under there? Jenny's mother would
have pitied her daughter if she could have but she could not.
'I guess it runs in the family',
Jenny's mother said with a sigh as she turned on the juicer and
annihilated the conversation with the sound
of whirring blades.
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