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Show 95 not to do that in the present because I am infolfed wif other fings." Willie squinted and rubbed his chin harder. "Maybe," he said. "Someday." The Fall In the fall I hated high school more than ever. Neda had xx rheumatic fever and had to live on a matress in the living room. She wasn't even allowed to walk, but xxx that cut dov/n so much on her steal-sit-eat cycle that she was losing weight no matter how much she stuffed. xaxg Bush had complications with her leg, so they didn't let her out of the hospital, and Jon had stopped sleeping and spent all his time walking which Red quarrantined to the kitchen and holy room, at least while he was home. Which xxxxxx wasn't so often now. He'd found a job selling toilet supplies to institutions for some company out of Cleveland, almost totally on commission. Every morning he got in the Rainbow with i his coat and tie and his bowling ball and headed into the world of janitorial supply. He wasn't making any money but at least he was out of the house, though when he did come home he was always mad as hell because nobody wanted to switch brands of toilet xxxaax paper. "It's the best god-damn toilet paper in the world," said Red. "How can you convince somebody of that?" Red drove Jon to the hospital every other day to see Bush, but by now Jon knew that Red was trying to kill them both. "You're trying to kill us," Jon told him. "You're trying to kill Mother and me. After all I did to save this country." Then Jon would cry. "Shut-up, you god-damn nut," said Red. Helen sometimes tried to mediate, but she knew Red v/as right. Besides, Kennedy had been xaxxHaxacxaMXHaiB!* pushing for the x Democratic presidential nomination and she was xxx plenty busy bending ik The Infant's ear about the country's need for a Catholic president. "If all the Catholics vote Catholic," she said, "And some of the Protestants are open-minded, we'll win." In the evenings, twice a week, Karl and I took rides in his truck in the Qlenwood Hills district, a rich suburb on the southern end of the city where a lot of the old moneyed families like the |
