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Show Gay Perhaps my father had failed his responsibility to all of us - women and children alike -- by'biting off more than he could-chew." Perhaps he had made so many promises that he had begun to forget some of them. He had promised to take only virgins into the family. My mother explained this, her face dipped, flushing. "During the early days when things were hard, before your father got a good practice going, we used to tease him, saying, 'can't you marry a rich widow?' Well, he has his rich widow, now - and a divorcee, too." "She was already divorced?" "No. She divorced him to marry your father." (fa ttrtAAJ The blood drained from my face. AI had longed for divorce, but had restrained myself, feeling it would be sin to abandon Brian. And now my father - JW»f citadel of morality, In my aindr - had acted as an agent of divorce. He had invited a woman into adultery. I said as much to my mother. She shook her head. "I don't think he can be accused of leading her into temptation. She has quite a past." Thought roiled in me. But my mother was still talking. "There are several women who were married before. And we're never sure who they belong to -- their husbands or your father. They're not sure who they're sealed to - so how can we be?" Again her voice shook with the force of her feeling. She cleared her throat sev eral times before she spoke again. "What bothers me most of all is discovering that a person could actually force her way into the family " Her neck fell >-i suddenly, as J-h"ngh it had been broken and she put her head in her arms. I didn't know what to do. I could feel for everyone - |