. The Ladies' home journal. hwas inventing some wonderful machine, orwas writing a book, or something like then I began to wonder why he didntdo anything, and I began to be ashamed forhim, as if he were my own father, not doinganything. But maybe he was going to get ajob right away. Id ask Humphry what hisfather did. like typical white trash, my mother was saying. My father leaned back and lit his , they probably wont be around toolong, he said. I hear the taxes on thatplace are in arrears. Theyll probably lose itand move away. That big strapping man! my mothersaid. And she


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