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sin He says a man named Bartholomew Winsloas

my real daddy and he died in a fire Our mother

seduced him"

Seduced? I gave hi look

"Do you knohat that word means?"

"Nope--but I know it's bad, real bad!" "Do you love our mother?"

Worry tormented his dark eyes He sat heavily

on the ground and contemplated his sneakers He

should have answered quickly, spontaneously "Bart,

do o into the house

and tell Mo you They'll

understand anything I know you think Mom loves me

best, but it's not so She has room in her heart for ten

children"

"Ten?" he screaonna adoptto be old had ility he had That hospital stay had