Michael Malone - Weebly

"You should hear the stories Ray tells me about
what goes on up at Alexander Hamilton and Dixwell
High. Sidney, you're so naive.
You've hidden yourself off in this hole so long, you
don't know what's going on. Even Dingley Falls is out of
the dark ages. Even Dingley Falls went through the
sixties. They do everything these days. Drugs. Group
sex. They do it in grammar school, for crap's sake."
"Well, I can still be sorry she had to see us like that,
probably at least embarrassed her."
"Embarrassed her! She's the one that barged in."
"I know, I'm sorry about the whole thing, forgive
me, okay?"
"I started it, Sidney. Don't think you raped me or
something."
"But not like that, right on the floor in a damn
library!"
Sidney Blossom was not a worldly man. In his
thirty-two years he had had sexual intercourse twice
with his mother's maid, four times with prostitutes in
Providence during four years at Brown University, and
twenty-six times with Beth Page, a fellow library