Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know

by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On

At eleven, my granddaughter looks like my daughterdid, that slender body, that thin face, the grace

with which she moves. When she visits, she sitswith my daughter; they have hot chocolate together

and talk. The way my granddaughter moves her hands,the concentration with which she does everything,

knocks me back to the time when I sat with my daughterat this table and we talked ...