Strange Sally Diamond

by Liz Nugent

You don’t like talking on the phone and I don’t like cauliflower. Are we so different?

“Well, I’m theoretically heterosexual,” I said. She stared at me and gave me a confused face. “I’ve never had sex, so I can’t be one hundred percent sure.”

Made me laugh

“I’ll make them. It’s lucky that Toby doesn’t eat, otherwise we’d run out of bread.”

lol!

Later, he read Medea and Macbeth with me. “You see what she made him do? He was a weak man. That’s why a man has to be in charge. We have to show our superiority.”

Gross

“I’m not racist, but Ireland is for Irish people.” “But Abebi and Maduka are Irish. They were born here.” “They’ll never be Irish,” she said. “It’s not good to be racist, Caroline,” I said. “You don’t understand a lot of things, Sally, and this is one of them.” “I understand racism.” “Stop calling me a racist.” “Stop being one.”

If only more people just said the damn thing

Sue assured me I had not made her uncomfortable.

These people are nice fo sally im proud of her

And by the way, Valerie,” she said as she got to the door, “your quiche is shite.”

I literally LOL’d 😂

I had handled that conversation well. Even though I am a woman and not a girl. I felt a little moment of triumph that I could tell Tina about next month. Empathy! I had felt it and expressed it.

I really love this character

Was this what happiness felt like? Laughing and smiling came easily to me today.

Tina was wrong about everything. I was right to trust nobody. They all let me down in the end. Keeping secrets or telling secrets behind my back. I’m deaf again.

No 😭

To be a composer, I need peace and a piano. And that old teddy bear that randomly arrived in the mail a couple of years back. He has become my lucky charm.

crying and angry at the same time