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Show 100 The doctor knelt down and together we said the Act of Contrition." "He needed it," I said. "Not you." "I won't say this again to you. Andrew and I are bound in some way by the Lord." "Okay." I gave her the fifty bucks and she put it in the pocket of her gray and black and white checked house skirt. Uncle Jon Discovers the Telephone Uncle Jon discovered the telephone. It was an interesting way of sending as well as receiving messages, especially since the only person talking to him axxxxaxaxaaxxxxaa from the State After was Grandma Funster, and she wasn't interested in his war, she just bitched about Grandpa, who Jon took to be his dead Dad our Grandpa Stanley who of course I never met because he died when Helen was twelve during xxa The Great Depression. -JtgMBaBBi&ag Everybody in the Ksxxx world was very sad back then, being caught between xxx World Wars and all, and it really took its toll over here because it depressed a lot of people right out of existence, including our Grandpa Stanley who died inexplicably, mysteriously, and sadly. Mostly Jon called Bush to tell her he knew it wasn't her trying to talk to him because she wasn't dead, though he v/as just calling to make sure, and besides he knew Bush would never talk about Grandpa Stanley that way. "Stanley v/as a bum/* said Bush from her hospital bed. Only Red and me and Helen went anymore because Joseph and Andrew watched after Neda> and Jon was home on the phone talking to Bush, or at least listening for her not to be dead. He didn't like to come anymore because he didn't like the interim between the phone and the hospital. "I'm not dead yet," Bush said into the phone. "He's nuts, but he loves his mother," she said to us. She looked at Red. "What have you got for me?" Red pulled axixa a small flask out from his suit coat, which he wax wore all the iika time now, his only one, along with a white shirt and tie, because he was trying to build up as much respect for himself as he could, afterall, he was working and he wasn't working labor. Bush pulled an empty flask from between her mattresses and they traded. ft"l,,gyp frfr a Po*\of chocolates. |