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Show % ^5 that went long enough eventually got along to cursing geneology and that gave Red xxx plenty reason to smash chairs. Every chair was held together by nuts and bolts. They looked like jig-saw puzzles. Neda kept crying and told Red that Helen was throwing up all the time. "Your mother throws up easy," said Red. "This is different," moaned Helen, x "I feel like my insides are coming out." Red had his big chair in the air now, held in one hand. "Don't break the chair, Dad/1 said Neda. "Mommy's sick." Red threw the chair down and it just cracked a little bit. Then Helen got up and went upstairs. I don't where Helen got the strength, but she fought with Red right through the night, on her back, over the toilet, she must have really felt sick. Neda cried right along and I sat with the babies playing with i my toy soldiers. Massive toy soldier deaths always helped me keep my mind off things. Baby wrestling wasn't bad either and Andrew and Joseph were very cooperative. I was xxxai pretty used to the fights, but this one was ax££axx different. Helen began to cry, and she never strayed from the topic. After awhile all she said was "I'm sick, Red," over and over, "I'm sick. I'm sick." KxxxxixxxKKXKXXXxXaxnxixxxxxxxXxiBXKxaxixiXxxisXaxa Then she stumbled downstairs to the phone and tried to call a taxi, but Red pulled the cord out of the wall. Helen went over to the Jinxes. I remember Helen clutching at herself as she walked to the Taxi. It was raining and black and theAcab as bright as a light bulb. Red yelled to her as she got in. "Don't come back. Don't you dare ax come back!" Then he came in and rubbed out the dining room chairs. This was the summer before I got shot. Red hadn't hit bowling ball nirvana yet, he had to get his bowling solace at the alley, blasting pins. It was the summer before the summer without doors. He hadn't settled down xxxx yet. Still, the next day he was up early . before work screwing the chairs together, and after* work heAcarted off to the hospital xxxxaxxxxi where he told Helen, "Don't do it," and Helen said "I have to do it." "You won't be a woman anymore," xxxxxxaaxxxx said Red. And Helen said, "If I don't I won't be a human anymore." |