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Show J^ 0 dark hair, a narrow face, and thin nervous fingers like Stanley. Only his eyes, hazel instead of dark brown, showed his kin to Bush. Stanley poured them both beer. "Go to school," he said drunkenly. "Be a doctor. Something people need, no matter what." "I'd be a great manager!" said little Stan, raising both hands. Stanley held his head. "You're going to school," he said. Somehow, no matter how well things went, it all seemed more of a struggle than he wanted. Stanley began throwing parties on the weekend. Each time, the biggest event of the night was xxxx when he lit his cigar with a twenty dollar bill. It drove Bush mad and it was one of the few things that gave him pleasure. Then he'd wake the kids and bring them out. He'd get little Stan a beer and they'd joke about the business. Jon xxxxx grew like a sho"t and played basketball for 8i Holy Rosary. David had a paper route, an entrepreneur, like his dad. Frances sang. Helen showed everyone the silver dollar the Mayor gave her on the day she was christened. Bush let the show end, then rustled the children back to bed, all but little Six Stan who would graduate that June. He'd been xxxxxx accepted at Georgetown. And after that Bush came back to the living room and re-filled her glass of whiskey and ate chocolate. She liked the way the xxxx brown burn of the whiskey melted over the sweetness and raged into her nose and throat. When the Depression hit it wiped out Stanley's stocks in one day, but he still had his store, his apartments, his land. But even little Stan couldn't sell furniture to phantoms. People had no money. And Stanley's apartments on the Bay Front were all rented to workers now out of work. Stanley's drinking friends, out of work and in need of money came to him, and he lent them what he had till his saving were dry. Little Stan went xx off to Georgetown in the fall and Bush informed Jon that he wouldn't play basketball ihxi that year so he could help Stanley out at the store. Bush had prepared for the crisis. Sxwxx^xMM^SSIMaxx She had the chickens, ducks, and rabbitts, because she hadn't let Stanley tear down the pens. She had her garden, which she expanded, and like every year she canned xxx in the fall and prepared seeds for the spring. JixxxkMSXxHxxnxxxiitxgxxxxxxxxxiXxkax She had the money she'd |