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Show 27 got them shoulder high. "I'm going to the store." "And come home stinking drunk." Stanley covered his face. "I'm married to a nun. "Who gave you five children." "A grandma," said Stanley, putting on his coat. "Grandma." After that Stanley never called her Esther again. He called her Busha, Polish for Grandma, like 'boosh', which eventually it was shortened to, but then just plain Bush like 'crush' or 'mush'. Even when he loved her and whispered to her that she was a great and wonderful xx strong woman and it made him proud, she was still his Bush, and even the kids started calling her Bush but she didn't care. Her mother was a busha. She'd be Bush soon enough anyway. So if Stanley drank too much and smoked x too much and gambled ixxxxxsx too much, so if his ideas were too big and his head too small, so, he was a man. x Still, now there was money for the boys' college, and if things continued to go well, maybe for her daughters, Frances and Helen, especially Helen, who learned how to read ;jxxix£xaxocxaaxx on her own just from looking at picture books and could already add and subtract, even before going to school. None of the others had done that, even Stanley could see it, Stanley called her his 'little miracle' and put her on his lap and gave her sips of beer and puffs on his cigar. Bush gave her more chores. "She's not the center of the world," said Bush. "Ah, " said Stanley, giving Helen a puff of his cigar when she V |