Bobbie Ann Mason is a present day writer who writes stories during spans of time that I have lived through which makes her writings quite interesting. In this story she writes about Leroy and Norma Jean and her mother Mabel. Leroy is a truck driver who has been injured and doesn’t appear to be going back to work. Norma Jean works at Rexall drugstore and she works with cosmetic and she has gotten quite knowledgeable about them. Leroy just sits at home, but he has gotten creative with creating crafty things with craft kits. He also has a Lincoln Log Set and uses it to brag and show how he plans to build a log cabin. Norman Jeans wants no part of it. She seems to be unhappy with Leroy being home every day. One day, Norma Jean’s mother walks in her house and finds her smoking a cigarette. This is hard on them both. Mabel doesn’t realize that her son-in-law smokes marijuana. After the two of them lost a child after first getting married, they have grown somewhat distant. Norma Jean’s mother keeps suggesting they go to Shiloh Georgia where her and her husband went after they first got married. She convinces Leroy it will be good for the marriage. She even refers to it as a second honeymoon. After they leave for Shiloh, they have many gaps of conversation. As each of them try, they both feel awkward and just get quite again. While in Shiloh, they see a few cites, but do not find it as appealing as Mabel made it seem. While there, Norma Jean tells Leroy she wants to leave him and they argue back and for a few times.
I enjoyed this story so much. I just wish it wouldn’t have just ended the way it did. I wonder if they did get divorced or find some kind of common ground again. I suppose Norma Jean just got too use to having her own time with him being gone so much as a truck driver.
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