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Nothing Went Right<br />
“Oh you best not send me to voice mail, you little<br />
shit-ass,” Mabel said into her Droid as she lit a<br />
clove cigarillo. “Dammit.”<br />
She hung up and snapped her cell around to text her daughter.<br />
“You ain’t crying to me,” she said and slammed it on the counter.<br />
“Shit-ass,” Mabel spat and took a drag.<br />
She hadn’t been this angry with Leeney since her daughter was<br />
little. However, she was being about as dumb as a seven-year-old, so<br />
Mabel felt justied. She couldn’t believe Leeney was at out lying to<br />
her. She’d raised Leeney better than that.<br />
Mabel felt for Leeney, she did. She couldn’t imagine how her<br />
daughter felt when she opened that letter two weeks ago. She couldn’t<br />
imagine what it took for the boy to send it, either. But she did know<br />
that when Leeney gave up that baby for adoption he’d come back. She<br />
respected her daughter’s decision, but she still thought the girl was an<br />
idiot.<br />
“Parkers are dierent,” Mabel said to Leeney twenty years ago. “We<br />
can’t do like other people. You know what all that boy will carry in<br />
him.”
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