Chapter 103

He would do his homework while playing with toys; his eyes would be glued to the TV while eating; he would take a comic book into the bathroom and wouldn’t come out for half an hour without being called; but sometimes he was very sensible. When his mother was unhappy, he would take the trash out the door himself; when his mother wasn’t feeling well, he would pour her a glass of water and tell her to take her medicine; last year on his mother’s birthday, he gave her a painting of a villa with a garden, with the words,…