In any big outfit, including this one, you're going to get some bitchers and some moaners.

They carries yoggers an' all — they'd mar a man for three grand, like me dead father they would.

It was true. Especially for Jeffie, her baby. He'd had enough hurt and she had to protect him. … Her cousin Mimi's husband the psychiatrist said, Everyone has his own mourning time. Jeffie will go to school when he's ready.

When I found out my mother had passed away that night, I fell to pieces.