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I know exactly where he's rushing to. That little<br />

painted whore and him both are going to get hauled in<br />

to see Father Crisp and get the riot act read them, if not<br />

worse and he has to marry her. Sit down, have a Coke,<br />

how are you? I'm just so on edge about you after what<br />

happened to Alf and Sister Mary Joseph." On and on<br />

from there went Mrs. MacDermott with an exuberant<br />

necrology that included a fellow A&P clerk's sister,<br />

who had been born without either her arms or her legs<br />

from thalidomide and lived strapped to a tilting board in<br />

the family room. Like a Foxe's Book of Martyrs for the<br />

modern world, she detailed news of all the latest local<br />

sufferings, and not even after Judith had heard far too<br />

much about Jack and Peggy Strummer's private<br />

sorrows was Sarah willing to release her. "Besides, you<br />

know Bobby wasn't even really Jack's son because<br />

Peggy was married before. Used to live right here in<br />

Madder, I think he was an alcoholic, anyhow she<br />

dumped him. So Jack adopted Bobby. They both took<br />

after Peggy, Bobby and Joy, God bless her. Oh, he<br />

was so good-looking, well, you saw him. Sort of like a<br />

cross between Tab Hunter and Burt Reynolds. I used

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