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Show 167 could relax, maybe put a little v/eight back on, even think about looking for a new job, though Helen doubted Red would look for a different job, that would look too much like running, especially since holding i his own like he was he got to work as hard as he wanted all over the plant. Also Helen really was serious about having four kids, ixaxgx though just like she told Frederick Carpenter Strong she'd have preferred being on the giving end of the process, so she figured she may as well get started and get it over with, Red's family looked healthy, except for his sister Jelly with that teeny little leg, but she got that xx from polio and there were a vaccines for that now, and Red was certainly healthy, maybe they'd even have a kid with blond hair and blue eyes, xaxiXaxaaaxaxxikaxkHiiax not only that they both had jobs and if they got married ihaxxwaaxaxxi Red wouldn't have to pay mortgage on Whitey's and Emma's house anymore and Helen wouldn't have to give Bush money for her brothers' educations, so the sooner the better. So Red and Haix Helen got married on the last day of August, the day before Red's birthday, a pretty small wedding, because nobody was too happy about it, in the rectory of Holy Rosary, the Polish cathedral, because Red wasn't allowed to gax get married inside a Catholic church because he was a ga£3dtaxx 'god-damn heathen' as Helen affectionately put it, in later years not so affectionately, and Red also had to sign a piece of paper agreeing that all his children would be brought up Catholic and he'd never talk to them about Luther and when he got back from his honeymoon he'd start catechism classes twice a month ixxxxxaxia that would teach him all about the Catholic a Church about how it really wasn't much different from Lutheranism at all except more right, and of course Red signed the paper because religion was religion to him. So they just had a little wedding in the rectory, the same rectory that Bush cleaned everyday when she came over from Europe, though afterv/ards they had a reception at the Kronenberger Cluh, which v/as the compromise, and even though none of Helen's brothers came back to town for the wedding, being caught up in summer a school and various jobs to support themselves, most of Red's family came to the xaaaxixax reception with Emma Loop running herd a on all of them, telling them this was not a situation to celebrate, good thing Protestantism •n JcT^vorce", and Helen's sister Frances came in from Detroit |