"Eddings, David - Regina's Song V2.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

just to show her how independent he was, he enlisted in
the army-
something he might not have done if he'd been
completely sober. He was, however, sober enough to
sign on for only
two years rather than the customary six.
As it turned out, Les Greenleaf was inducted on the
same day, so they started out together. My mom had
been pregnant-
with me-during her little argument with dad, which
might have explained why she'd been so grouchy.
Anyway, Ben and Les went off to war, and mom stayed
home and sulked.
I was about a year and a half old when they got out of
the army, and I was among the guests at the wedding of
Mr. Lester
Greenleaf and Miss Inga Wurzberger. I was the one
who slept through the whole ceremony. Inga was
obviously of German
extraction-Bavarian, I think-and she'd been a sorority
girl at U.W. while Les was concentrating on cutting
classes. The wedding
had taken place in a Catholic church, and I guess my
dad had been a little uncomfortable about that-but
buddyship prevailed.
Inga and my mom got along well together, and starting
back when I was still a toddler, we often visited the
Greenleafs in their
fancy home in a posh district of Everett. Since I was
absolutely adorable in those days, I was al-ways the
center of attention
during those visits, and I thought that was sort of nice.
My time in the limelight came to an abrupt halt in 1977
when Inga blossomed and bore fruit-a pair of twin girls,
Regina and
Renata, who definitely outclassed me on the
adorability front. As I remember, I was fairly sullen about
the whole thing.
Regina and Renata were identical twins-so identical
that not even Inga could tell them apart-and when they
first started talking,
it wasn't English they were speaking. I'm told it's not
uncommon for twins to have a private language, but
"twin-speak" is
supposed to fade out before the pair get into
kindergarten. Regina and Renata kept their private
dialect fully operational all the
way into high school.
There was a whacko social theory at that time to the
effect that twins would grow up psychotic if they were