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Show Blue Run/31 and blood son. It's signed by a judge " Buddy held out his lie, waited for me to take it. "My daddy'll kill you. He'll cut your head off." Joey giggled, a little dab of spittle on his chin. "I love you Josephine. In your heart, you know it's true And you know I love my boy. How on earth can you not know?" "Don't" "Your heart knows " When Joey was born, after my milk came, I lost a front tooth A dentist said it happened sometimes So here I was, twenty-one, about to be a single mom with my husband dressing up in his fake electrician clothes Hanging out all day with who knows who-another woman and her baby, maybe-then threatening to drown me when I got wind of it. So I manage to scrap enough grit together and leave him and just about then, just as I was about to take Joey and put Arizona behind us forever, right on cue, an incisor falls out. "Dee pay for that tooth? That's a lot better." "Go to hell" "Been there. I'm sorry " "Leave." "I got rights. Judge says so." "I mean it. Leave now." He cocked his hip and gave me that sideways look, just blocking our doorway, the shade playing on his neck and shoulders. Nobody on earth save us three. The air just went out of things |