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Show 161 It won't even get you a husband, it's an all girls' school." "I love Red," said Helen. "Good, maybe he'll pay for your books." "I'll get my own job, I'll pay you rent. If I want to go, I'll go." "Pffft," said Bush. "What do I got? Big muscles? A barbed wire fence?" So k Red told Helen he wasn't going to go to Cleveland, he'd xaxxg graduate and go to work at the Forge. He was the only son and owed it to Whitey and Emma to help pay £ax the mortgage on the house that he'd lived in all his life. "Oh," said Helen. "That's a lot of crap." Because she thought that underneath Red's big giant self of muscle lurked something very scared. But Helen decided not to take the scholarship to Villa Maria College because they already had problems enough being Polish-Catholic and German-Lutheran and she didn't want to make it worse by being more educated, besides back then Helen thought she could change Red, she thought she could reach down in and £ixa find whatever he was scared of and get him to wring its neck and then go out and do something with at least one of those bunches of things he could do with the same determination he had when he was mad or when he didn't want to do something, if he could just want something that bad he could do anything, and she'd give up anything to see him do it, Helen would do anything for Red except die, she drew the line at death, and good thing. So Red went to work at the Forge which kaaxkagaaxkxxxi^ftiijiji> like every other factory in town was producing more and more and hiring more and more, and Helen kept scrubbing floors with Bush until Frances got married and moved to Detroit with her husband and then she got Frances' job at £k as a teller at the First National Bank, though that didn't last long because she was so smart and competent that soon she was a isxaxxaaxaiaxy loan secretary and then axaxxxxxxxxxaaxxxixixaixa an administrative secretary to a vice-president England gave Czeckoslovakia to GermanyA took Poland and Austria in the bargain, which made Helen's brother Jon so upset he cried, missed a law exam at the University of Pennsylvania and dropped out for a term. He came home for*;* term and did nothing so it v/as a good thing Helen had such a good job. And unlike Helen, Red didn't get promotions |