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I bought the gym from Lou when he retired and I’m bringing up my boys with the best of both worlds, school smarts come first, but my young lads are tougher than nails.
Miguel stands in the small crowd and raises his fist in enthusiasm as the bell rings and Celia comes to standing. I rub her shoulders, whisper the strategies she already knows. Celia is fearless, determined, doesn’t care if she breaks her nose—only her fist. I give her one last squirt of water and she swooshes and spits it out, pink with her blood.
She dances around her opponent and Jade yells out, “Go, Mom!”
Later, I’ll tend to every bruise and abrasion, rub her down with liniment and stick her in our home steam shower. Then, after the boys are asleep, I’ll remind Celia that the Universe is wide and deep and that all matter was once combined together until a massive event sent all the atoms, molecules, particles, and quarks spinning apart, separating, disintegrating. I’ll use her body as a model to explain the Big Bang, and I’ll search meaning and unity again and again and again, until she can’t take anymore. Then I’ll wrap her up tight in my arms and fall asleep to the sound of her steady breathing. The laws of the Universe aligned and are immaculate in her body, in the precise landing of her uppercut, and the pulsing wave of her orgasm, and the rhythmic comfort of her beautiful heart.
The End
