THE WEEKLY POST

I REMEMBER CARLOS (from"If We Survive")

I remember Carlos

a quiet man/boy who rarely spoke

in the early morning

freshman English class

I taught at the junior college.

He often entered late

but I remember his smile and bright eyes.

His perceptive mind

was a sponge, absorbing thoughts, ideas,

reading books to expand his horizon,

to be different from his friends in the barrio

where he had grown up.

He had left high school at seventeen

to work construction with his uncle.

In mid semester he told me

he was leaving school,

his girl-friend was pregnant.

They were going to be married

and he had volunteered

and would be going to Iraq.

Years later, I saw him in a restaurant

seated with his wife and child.

He thanked me for the times

I’d helped him and for the books

I sent him, but in his eyes

I now saw the quiet anger and the fear,

knowing the horror of which he was capable.

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Bill Forrest wants revenge for the the deaths of his wife and child. They were run down and killed by an attorney, who was legally drunk at the time of the accident. When the attorney escapes punishment because of his connections, Forrest waits six years and then murders the attorney.
At the same Bill’s wife and child are killed, 100 miles away at Northern Illinois University, Alice Solinsky has an abortion when her wealthy live-in boy friend, Gregory Varonian, leaves her for another woman.
Alice and Gregory accidentally meet again six years later in Lake Forest, Illinois, where Alice is living with her husband, Larry McBride. Gregory blackmails Alice into an affair, resulting in another pregnancy. But this time, she keeps the baby, letting her hard-drinking husband thinks Jason is his son.
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