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Show 48 # Uncle Stanley came with his face like a shovel, and his wife. Aunt Sylvia with her face like a shovel, and all four of my shovel-faced cousins, just shovels with noses like pickaxes, and they talked about a Pope Pius XII opening the letter that the Blessed Virgin gave to xaxax-aax the three little girls at Fatima and how it was going to be opened in i960 and how it probably said that the axxaxxxxix Communists were going to x take over the world if we all didn't say the Rosary everyday and stop them in Korea. If we said the Rosary everyday we'd get a bonus and the Jews would be converted. "What about the Protestants?" asked Red. "The Protestants should know better," said Uncle Stanley. He liked to watch the Boston Celtics play basketball. I liked the Syracuse Nats. Basketball was the one sport Red couldn't play. # Aunt Frances came in from Detroit and picked up Edju in Cleveland where he was a rich engineer. In Erie they picked up Bush and came to the hospital. Frances had black hair. She and Helen Xfit looked like the ugly and pretty sides of the same face. Edju had one of those shovel faces like Uncle Stanley except he had big ears and just a little bit of hair on the tip of his forehead. He patted everybody on the head, even Red. "Oh, Helen," he said to Helen. "Oh Helen, Helen, Helen." After that he never stopped talking and I never understood a word he said, except the more he talked the madder Bush got. Finally she called him a good-for-nothing. "I busted my dupa to get you over here," said Bush. "Now you're rich and what do I have? Pffft." "Oh Esther," said Edju. "Esther, Esther, Esther." # Red's family came around too, but they just brought xxxxxxx flowers and kept there mouths shut. |