I devised a test.I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I’d turn it off and on – sometimes for millisecond – and she never failed me. Each time it was off, she’s move and mutter – each time it was on, she’d sleep.By the time the headlights from Amy’s Nova turned into our driveway, my suspicion had been confirmed. My mother has a more intimate, connected relationship with this television than she has ever had with me.

I devised a test.I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I’d turn it off and on – sometimes for millisecond – and she never failed me. Each time it was off, she’s move and mutter – each time it was on, she’d sleep.By the time the headlights from Amy’s Nova turned into our driveway, my suspicion had been confirmed. My mother has a more intimate, connected relationship with this television than she has ever had with me.

– Peter Hedges –

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

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