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“You going to bring that up again?” he said “After all, I was only engaged to her six weeks”

“You showed some sense when you broke it off”

“Oh, you know Helen Always stagestruck Wanted to travel in a trunk I just couldn’t see it That broke it up She eet, though Sweet and kind”

“What did it get her? A terrible brute of a husband like Charlie”

“Dad,” I said

“I’ll give you that Charlie has got a terrible teh school graduation play? Pretty as a picture She wrote sos for it herself That was the su for me”

“Ha,” said Mother

“Don’t laugh It was a good song”

“You never told ”

“It was between Helen and o?”

“Dad,” I said

“You’d better take your daughter out in the back lot,” said Mother, “before she collapses You can singlater”

“Okay, come on you,” said Dad, and I ran him out of the house

The ereen and white and brown all around where the bottles lay

“Nohere’s this Screahed Dad