How It All Goes Down
- Eva is writing this letter at the time of the Bush/Gore election. No one yet knows who the president will be, and frankly, Franklin, Eva doesn't care.
- Instead, Eva wants to flashback to 1982, when she and Franklin were deciding whether or not to have a kid.
- After having dinner with their friends, Brian and Louise, who had given up a life of snorting cocaine for two daughters, Eva and Franklin talk about having a kid.
- Eva is kind of bored, so instead of, we don't know, reading a book or going to a movie, she thinks she might want a baby.
- Eva admits in her letter that she "wanted someone else to love" (2.77).
- Eva recalls another incident in which she and Franklin talked smack about their own parents to their friends.
- Eva wonders at what point that stops being cute. Maybe they should have a kid who will one day grow up to talk smack about them.
- Eva wants someone who makes "new stories, about which [she] would have new opinions" (2.104).
- This is going to be quite a story, we can tell. Be careful what you wish for, Eva.