Nov 15, 2009
The story begins with the narrator being embarrassed that his seventy-eight-year-old mother likes to ice-skate in Rockefeller Center in New York City. He shortly discovers, while he is waiting with her in the Newark airport to put her on a plane to visit some friends of hers in Ohio, that she is mortally afraid of flying. His next revelation is that his older brother, more successful in business than he and their mother's favorite, has recently developed an intense fear of high buildings, especially the elevators in them. Although the narrator's confrontation with his...
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