"I'll forget everything I learned and then I'll be just like him."
She runs out of the room, shrieking: "It's happening to me already. I'm forgetting everything...
I'm forgetting... I don't remember anything I learned any more!"
Rose, terrified, runs after her. Matt sits there staring at the newspaper in his lap.
Charlie, frightened by the hysteria and the screaming, shrinks into a chair whimpering softly. What has he done wrong?
And feeling the wetness in his trousers and the trickling down his leg, he sits there waiting for the slap he knows will come when his mother returns.
The scene fades, but from that time Norma spent all her free moments with her friends, or playing alone in her room.
She kept the door to her room closed, and I was forbidden to enter without her permission.
I recall once overhearing Norma and one of her girl friends playing in her room, and Norma shouting: "He is not my real brother!
"He's just a boy we took in because we felt sorry for him. My mamma told me,
and she said I can tell everyone now that he's not really my brother at all."
I wish this memory were a photograph so that I could tear it up and throw it back into her face.
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