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who is locked in closets and other scary places by his

father, who doesn't like him anymore Once the father

put hi, dark, scary

attic with mice and spooky shadows and spiders

everywhere"

She seemed to freeze "Who told you all of

that?" "His stepmother had dark red hair until he

found out she was only his father's paramour" Even from where I hid I could hear Momma

breathing hard and fast, as if that small boy she lifted

on her lap had suddenly turned dangerous "Darling,

you don't knohat a paramour is, do you?" He stared ahead into space "There was a lady

slender and fair who had red in her dark-dark hair

And she wasn't even married to his father who didn't

care what he did, how he cried, or even if he died" Her lips trembled, but she forced a smile "Bart,

I believe you have some poet in you All that has a