As Angel suspected, May chewed nails and spit fire when the sheriff released her into her stepmother's custody.

[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

The moral order embraces the totality of our duties towards God, towards ourselves, and towards our neighbours.

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