How we did it on a one night stand10/4/2023 His older sister leaves unbuttoned the top button of her blouses. His younger brother chews with his mouth open. He would like to destroy us, for we are, variously, too fat, too jocular, too sloppy, too affectionate, too grotesque and heedless in our ways. Yet his sleep is so solid he sweats like a stone in the wall of a well. The other day, he had the flu, and a fever, and I gave him a back rub, marveling at the symmetrical knit of muscle, the organic tension. I love touching him, but don't often dare. He is almost sixteen, though beardless still, a man's mind indignantly captive in the frame of a child. ![]() He is often upstairs, when he has to be home. ![]() For online information about other Random House, Inc., books and authors, see the Internet website at. ![]() Son,” from The Early Stories: 1953–1975 by John Updike, © 2003 by John Updike.
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