A Bad Dream

Yes. That is so. I found she hated then  (or even didn’t) her father who left when  she was a toddle of three.  She hated her mother (I couldn’t like her either)  and felt only a fully justified contempt for her one brother.  Which into waded: me.  Ran on her a morning en route to the Red Owl —  a supermarket not a totem pole —  not looking good;  when she unclad to me that suicide  was all she had at heart, & trembled, I tried  to, and did, clothe her with us.  The marriage came long after; —  there’s more here, pal, than ever we let out, but thus:  bugged by her ice for papa, I had her trace  the man down: — just dead, as no doubt he should;  then I made her her cancerous mother’s friend who died happy. I see our son sometimes.  I couldn’t help out with Brother. 

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