Children were brought up during our summertime sunning. Both of us didn’t care for any. Not a pair. Not even one. Truth was Tuck summed up both of our feelings towards children as, “I didn’t have the greatest childhood growing up with my father. Why would I do that to a son or daughter? I could never hurt a child like that. Never.”
“I understand exactly what you’re saying, Tuck. My parents sort of left me behind all the time. I was often forced to make my own meals and do my own laundry. Maybe it was their way of making me grow up. I’m not sure. I’ll never be sure.”
“Enough with the serious shit,” he said, and pulled me off the blanket. He grabbed two Rawlings gloves out his Nike duffel bag and a well-used softball. “We need to play some catch.”
“I don’t know if I can catch a ball,” I said, being honest. “I really don’t have an athletic bone or gene in my body.”