Only Glória and I came out fair. Mother works on the looms at the English Mill to help pay the bills.
The other day she went to load a box of spools and suddenly she felt this sharp pain. She had to go to the doctor.
He gave her a girdle to wear ’cause of a hernia in her back. Mother’s quite nice to me.
When she smacks me, she gets a switch of arrowleaf from the backyard and only hits me on the legs.
She’s always so tired when she gets home at night that she doesn’t even feel like talking.
The car cruised and I chattered. “My oldest sister’s really something. She’s such a flirt.”
“When Mother used to ask her to look after us and take us for a walk, she’d tell her not to go up to the top of the street”
“because she knew she had a boyfriend waiting at the corner.”
“So she’d head down to the bottom of the street and there’d be another boyfriend waiting there.”
“You couldn’t leave any pencils around, ’cause she was always writing letters to her boyfriends...”
“Here we are.” We were near the market and he was pulling over at the place we’d agreed on.
“See you tomorrow, squirt.” He knew I’d find a way to get him to stop off with me for a soda and a few trading cards.
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