Also, Mother was convinced that once I got there and proved myself I’d get some financial help. He wondered if a missing-person report was ever taken, if there was a mother or father or husband or child wondering all this time about her. He hadn’t shaved in three or four days, though I don’t think he’d been drinking. Can you imagine being there? Alone? Afraid? It is a unique individual who faces that kind of situation without flinching.
I don’t know who was reassured by the leash, but I sure wasn’t. ' 'No problem, man. The problem was that the surgery would certainly kill one of them. Often I slept less just to get the alone time.
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