context: Katherine is looking back on her childhood. Katherine’s parents have divorced and her mother, who has custody of her and her younger brother, is marrying anew. The adult Katherine contemplates a photograph from the wedding: “[I]nstead of recording untainted happiness, it captures me with a hazy stare and half-smile. … I see myself as I must have been: waiting. Waiting during the lull, the slatch between my past and my future, between one father and the other.”
definition: “a relatively smooth interval between heavy seas.”
definition source: dictionary.com
quotation source: Blood Strangers: a memoir by Katherine A. Briccetti
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