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Show 0 50 started carrying his bowling ball around. Now this was before Karl moved next door and a long before M Mr. Ambassador, Dean Danger. xxx An old, tottery couple named xxx Spinks lived where Karl lives now and they liked to spend xxxx their time mowing the lawn and pruning roses. We had the Spinkses on one side and the Jinxes on the other. Back then Helen wasn'- afraid of anything, except sometimes for Red. The Year of Two Hundred Books Helen kept buying things for her holy room. She bought pictures aixaxxxxxaxoffifcjfo!3eS%% of the holy family, blond and red cheeked, with gold Xi halos over their heads, tittle Jesus had curly hair and stood on a table with wood shavingj-on it. Joseph held His legs. Mary knelt. - - bought silver plaques of the Blessed Virgin and The Sacred Heart of Jesus all burning red with blood and fire with a gold crown of thorns wrapped around. Mary had a red heart too, but it wasn't burning. There were babies with angel wings too small to. fly them anywhere. Helen said they weren't angels, they were babies. It was sxxXxx symbolic of babies, after they were baptized Catholic, of course. When I looked at those pictures I always felt sorry for the babies in Limbo who got treated just like good pagans. Helen bought a statue of Mary as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception. She was all white and xxxax£ stood on top the world crushing a big snake that bit her foot. Then • got Holy Water from Lourdes, and finally a crutch from the wall there that some cripple left after he got cured. The crutch did it for Red. He cut off Helen's funds, then started doing the grocery shopping and even clothes shopping for the kids because he xxxx didn't trust what Helen would do if he let her have the money. He figured there was 3 thousand dollars invested in the dining room, enough for a new ax car, in fact he kept xx saying "enough for a new car, enough for a new car" so much he convinced himself he should get one and came home one day with a brand new xxx£afexkaxxRxxxkax metallic blue Studebaker Rainbow with xx black and wxix white striped seats and a big blue steering wheel. Helen hated that car. She rolled her head and thought of all the |