The Accident No One Talked About | With Uma Thurman

没人谈论的事故|与乌玛·瑟曼

Modern Love

2018-02-22

21 分钟
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Uma Thurman ("The Parisian Woman") reads Jessica Ciencin Henriquez's essay, about the silence that grew in the aftermath of a terrible accident.
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  • I found the driver's name from a police report that had been filed in Florida 17 years before.

  • The report was torn and creased and incorrect.

  • It said a boy was crossing the street on his bicycle, but there had been two boys in the road that day and no bike.

  • It said the boy was hit and his body was thrown 19 yards.

  • But he wasn't thrown.

  • He was dragged that far, caught in the dangling chains of the landscaping trailer hitched to the truck.

  • It said someone fled the scene, but that someone was my older brother, Alex, and he didn't flee.

  • He dropped the bucket of fish he and Jonathan had caught and rushed over to his friend, but the boy was already dead.

  • Alex had just turned 15.

  • This is the day we never spoke about.

  • Uma Thurman reading an essay by Jessica Sanson Henriquez.

  • It's called the accident no one talked about.

  • We were born one year and three months apart, but looked like twins with our rosebud lips and irish blue eyes.

  • Before the accident, we were inseparable.

  • We had our own rooms, but often shared my bed when we were little.