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Show 168 pregnant with her first pinhead and akx telling Helen she could always take the train to Detroit to get away, and Edju who told Red ixxxxxiaaxa "Oooh so Red so big oooh," and Helen "ooh so so," and gave them fifty xa^X^X3^a^^xxx»xx^»»Xsx3iix-txaxflaxix£xaMx£kaxkaHa bucks from inside the band of his big brimmed hat that dipped over one eye, and the Union's dirty man who gave Red and Helen a pair of heart shaped picture frames to stick their wedding portraits in and told Red, "I'll see you when you get back." It was a warm sunny Saturday and Red and Helen drove to Niagra Falls, Canada because Edju told them in so many words that the Falls were much prettier on the Canadian side and the Canadians took much better care aixa£xikaxa£xikxkk of their facilities with brick walls and mowed lawns and huge flower gardens and even a big clock at the center of a wishing moat, all made out of flowers, in fact Edju iXBXgkixiXBX thought the Canadians did everything better than the Americans, the Canadians were civilized people like the Europeans, and Bush, who was serving as translator for this whole business said XX" "How come you don't live in Canada?" and Edju rubbed his thumb against the inside of his index and middle fingers and pursed his lips and Bush looked at Helen and Red and said, "money." So Red and Helen borrowed Whitey's black Ford and drove to Canada, They liked the Falls and they didn't like the Falls. Whenever Red got near the Falls he got quiet. He didn't want to talk. He couldn't think. They made him nervous. The Falls made Helen think about babies. And so the xxx honeymoon was a disaster of sorts. Red said he couldn't fuck in a heart shaped bed, though he didn't put it in those words, though Helen hadn't quite worked out what she expected and in general was happy anyway. Si So I didn't get made till later, I could make up a day but it strikes me as too personal. Still, it happened sometime in between the time that Red and Helen made their down payment on a house on the edge of Polish town and Helen went back to work at the bank where Frederick Carpenter Strong wasn't bothered at all about the fact that she just got married and Red went back to work at the Forge where he spent his lunches red battling the Union's dirty man who now brought m Red a^rose everyday before they battered the walls of the Forge with their flesh, some kind of symbol I guess, that Red brought home to Mi Helen pretty much because he didn't know what else to do with it, though ne a>dn't tell her wheXe he got it from so Helen put rt_ in a xx |