Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.

In every episode I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

Today we're going to conclude the story that I began reading to you last week by Tony Morrison.

It's called Reset to Teeth, one of only two short stories ever published in her lifetime.

And if you haven't listened to part one yet, please do go back and listen to it.

For those of you who have already listened to part one, welcome back.

And let's refresh our memories about what happened last episode, shall we?

So the story begins at St. Bonnie's, an orphanage where two young girls, Twila and Roberta,

have been abandoned by their very much living mothers.

Twila says they share an understanding to not ask questions and it's simply a relief

for each of them to just be and not have to explain their mothers, their mothers absences

or the choices that their mothers have made.

They leave St. Bonnie's and they meet again at a diner in the late 1960s.

Twila is working as a waitress and Roberta is just passing through with some friends who

are on their way to meet up with Jimmy Hendrix.

They no longer perceive that they are on the same footing when they meet this time and

they've got additional baggages adults.

So now we pick back up a few years later.

Then check out the content advisory if you are inclined.

Let's go ahead and take that deep breath.

And begin.

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