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The young Isak Van Pelt was brought in and introduced around

When Marianne was finally gone, father sat doiping his forehead “I don’t know This is too much”

“You were the one who suggested she start going out,” said mother

“And I’ us for six ht if sheman—”

“And they were ht move out almost immediately—is that it?”

“Well,” said father

“Well,” said grandma

“But now it’s worse than before,” said father “She floats around singing with her eyes shut, playing those infernal love records and talking to herself A hs all the tiirls often wind up in the booby hatch?”

“He see man,” said mother

“Yes, we can always pray for that,” said father, taking out a little shot glass “Here’s to an early e”

The secondMarianne was out of the house like a fireball when first she heard the jalopy horn There was not tirandether, from the parlor

“She almost knocked me down” Father brushed his s? Well”

In the afternoon, Marianne, horaph records The needle hiss filled the house She played That Old Black Magic twenty-one ti “la la la” as she sith her eyes closed, in the room

“I’o in my own parlor,” said father “I retired fro, not to have a li about under the parlor chandelier”

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