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The Foundation’s Birthday
The morning of my seventy-third birthday smelled of freshly brewed Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee and the petunias in my garden. I woke up, as always, without an alarm at exactly 6:00 a.m., watching the Georgia sun brush the tops of old pecan trees outside my screened-in porch. This house, this getaway home on the outskirts of Atlanta, was my unrealized concert hall.
A long time ago, in another life, I was a young, highly promising architect with the project of my dreams laid out before me: a new performing arts center downtown.
My name was on the plans. I was chosen.
I was funded. Then came Langston with his first “genius” business idea: imported high-end woodworking machinery that was supposed to make us rich.
I liquidated the inheritance meant for my dream, for my future, and dropped every dime into his business.
It crashed and burned within a year, leaving behind only debt and a garage full of expensive machines no one wanted. Instead of a concert hall, I built this house—pouring everything I had into it. The remnants of my talent, all my strength, all my unspent love for form and line.
This home became my quiet masterpiece, my private museum.
A masterpiece no one else, except me, ever really saw. “Aura, you seen my blue polo?
The one that looks best?” My husband’s voice yanked me from my memories. Langston stood in the doorway, already dressed in slacks, frowning, focused only on himself.
His thinning hair was combed carefully over the bald spot he pretended not to have.
Not a word about my birthday. Not a single glance at the festive linen tablecloth I’d taken out of the hall closet yesterday. Seventy-three years old.
Fifty years together.
For him, this was just another Thursday. He loved calling me his “foundation.” “You are my foundation, Aura,” he would sometimes say after his third snifter of cognac, like it was a compliment.
He had no idea how right he was. And he had no idea what foundations could do when they decided to stop supporting the structure built on top of them.
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