The Love Song of R. Anica Dewdrop

Scenes from Resortlife #273930

• Norm: Rosie, what does it mean when your coffee machine has a little dial at the top and on one end it has an outline of a cup and on the other it has a full cup.
• Rocio: (from the couch) It's probably to indicate how strong of a cup you want.
• Norm: Hm. It has an outline of a cup and the other is a filled-in cup.
• Rocio: Probably, it's probably for how big of a cup you want.
• Norm: Here. I'll take a picture of it and I'll send it to you. Where's my phone? (Exits room).
• Mom: You guys are worse than me. I text from the other room.
• (Norm reenters).
• Mom: My acupuncturist says that for the body to fully rest you have to be fully flat laying down. I use three pillows, but she says that not even one pillow is needed.
• Norm: Is that true?
• Mom: That's what she said. I don't believe her. When I was a little girl, I didn't use pillows and I had nightmares for forever, every night, for years, and they were always--there were always bulls.
• Rocio: I'm sorry, what. Bowls?
• Mom: Bulls.
• Rocio: Bolls. Bolls.
• Mom: Yeah, bulls. I was always dreaming about the toros, and they were always chasing me or keeping me trapped. Somebody told me once that they are gossips.
• Norm: Did you get the text? How do you want your coffee?
• Rocio: Yes, turn the dial all the way to the right.
• Mom: They represent gossips. In Mexico, in dreams, if you're dreaming about bulls there's gossiping.
• Rocio: We're talking about, like, cows. Cows, but male. Right? They symbolize people gossiping about you.
• Mom: Yes, in my last dream--my acupunturist said to lay flat--so in my last dream there was a bull who was injured. He blocked my path, because he needed my help. And he was talking and I was so scared of him; I was so scared, I ran away. Because, I mean, he was talking to me! I used to dream like this, I was, in the years between 15 to 17 years. I was telling Norma that it was because people were gossiping that I was dating everyone in the whole town. But I really wasn't.
• Rocio: Three pillows. How does one use three pillows.
• Mom: Like this. (Grabs three pieces of cabbage and piles them together; it looks like a nest with arms). My head goes here.
• Rocio: Oh, Mom.
• Mom: So, I tried but the nightmares came back and I was so scared, Normita.