Title: Breakfast With Scot Author: Michael Downing Published by: Counterpoint, 1999 ISBN: 1-58243-027-6 [hardcover, 194 pages]
Sam and Ed are living the good life. Ed is an editor at an Italian art magazine. Sam a successful chiropractor. Though devoted to one another, they have no longings for the joyful mysteries of parenthood.But when eleven-year-old Scot's mother dies suddenly, the couple is determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before. Plunging into a flurry of activity, they do their best to prepare themselves and their home for Scot's arrival. They hang a tire swing in the front yard, rearrange their schedules, and call the neighborhood school to arrange for enrollment. None of their well-intended preparations, however, can ready them for Scot.
"Sam and I first met Scot when he was two and his hair was thin and pinkish, a conditional optimistically referred to as strawberry blond. He spent most of that weekend under an oak table playing with everyone's shoelaces. I didn't think much about it at the time, but it is true that Scot treated every movable object as a hat. He tried on upholstered pillows, stray socks, notepads, and even a roasted chicken leg."
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