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Show Joseph, then he sewed her up and forgot to take it out. Andrew had to turn around in the womb, kick out the wadding, which catapulted across the operation room and hit a nurse in the chest, then turn around again to get his head out. He came out purple as a grape with a caved-in chest. Still, in Helen's book it was a miracle. She was supposed to die if she had another kid, and instead she would have died if she didn't. That's how Andrew became her savior- After Joseph and Andrew Red didn't ever want to deal with doctors again. He had the mechanics and the lawyers and the axxxxxxx dentists at the top of his shit list and now the doctors were at the very top. He told everybody in the house not to get sick. "That's it," said Red. "Nobody's getting sick anymore. Don't break the law, don't get any cavities, and don't get sick. I'm running this house and those are the rules." "Bism. :•-..:;• said Helen. "Heil Hitler." A year later Helen got i really sick. She held her stomach a lot and threw up a couple times a day. When me and Neda came home from school, Helen was in bed, with Joseph and Andrew playing on the bedroom floor. We " . - Helen up, then I . Jospeh and Andrew while Neda helped Helen in u- kitchen. She looked bad. Her skin was xxx usually kind of dark, like an Arab or something, and she had deep green eyes and prematurely gray hair like silver. She was pretty. But now she was just gray aixxxxxxxxx all over. X I brought Joseph and Andrew downstairs and helped Helen set the table, which was unusual behavior for me because usually I #x took off after a school and didn't come around till Red showed up. We sat at the kitchen table waiting for Red with Helen looking like a dead plant. "I'm going to have to tell Hitler I need a doctor," said Helen. That was the first time I realized she really was afraid of Red. So we had one of those nobody-eats suppers. Helen didn't eat because she was sick, Red didn't eat because he was mad, and we didn't eat because we were scared. "Just wait, you'll get better," said Red. "I won't get better, I'll die," said Helen. She really looked like she would. Neda started to cry. "God-damn-it," said Red. He got up and xaaxxxxxxaxas grabbed his chair. He was in his chair smashing period. The dining room and kitchen tables and chairs all came from Bush, so any arguemnt |
