#575 Miss Lora- Junot Diaz
Miss Lora was his neighbor; single, older and was shaped like a body builder. She wasn’t attractive to the other boys in the neighborhood, but to him, a boy in adolescence with a girlfriend that was shy about giving him physical attention, she was the perfect target for affection.
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, a gesture. That’s what happened with your girlfriend Paloma—she stooped to pick up her purse, and your heart flew out of you….That’s what happened with Miss Lora too.”
The inappropriate Mrs. Robinson relationship they had lasted until he went off to college. She was the one he remembered and associated with his teenage years, the one that taught him how to be a man. He knew it was wrong but it was his secret, and having that secret was important.
Word of the day: Fulgurate- To destroy using electricity.
Notable Passage: "Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn’t mean you don’t have them.”
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