![]() ![]() Popular ebooks IMAGINES: Celebrity Encounters Starring You by Anna Todd & Leigh Ansell & Rachel Aukes & Doeneseya Bates & Scarlett Drake & A. " I didn't want to hear any more about it either, "I don't want to hear any more about it, Charlie. My father wasn't there, he was down at Gogan's slopping up a few with his good buddies, but if he'd been around he would have said I looked "squared away." I didn't feel like an asshole. The bow tie was clutching my collar like a pink spider with hidden steel legs, the coat was too tight, and she'd even made me put on my square-toed shoes, which were my Sunday best. I was, in fact, starting to run through my arguments for the fourth time that day, but time had just about tun out. But you didn't cross her, or she could dig in her heels usually somewhere in the groin area. She is kind to animals and accordion-playing mendicants. ![]() My mother is a humorous, literate, pleasant person. That was two years ago, and so far as I know, it's still there. Then she took the puzzle apart and put it away in the attic. She took a Polaroid picture of it to send to Uncle Tom, who lives in Wisconsin. There were TV dinners and pickup lunches for Dad and I on December twenty-sixth and the twenty-seventh, but on the morning of the twenty-eighth, the puzzle was done. ![]() She sat down on Christmas afternoon and spread the puzzle out on her puzzle table in her bedroom-by this time they each had their own. He always called her "Mother" when he felt a good one had been put over on her, and it never ceased to irritate her. "Let's see you do that one, Mother," he said. The rest of the puzzle was solid white, no shades. So Tom sent her a five-hundred-piece jigsaw puzzle that had a single blueberry down in the lower-right-hand corner. She did a lot of jigsaws-I helped-and they both thought it was the biggest waste of time on earth. I think Uncle Tom was in collusion with my dad on that one. Listen to this: for Christmas one year, my dad's brother gave her this weird jigsaw puzzle. Mom let me run pretty much as I pleased most of the time, but when she got an idea solid in her mind, you were stuck with it. One call to Carol's mother set that straight. ![]() I even tried a lie-told her the party was off because Carol had the chickenpox. Rooty-toot.īut I hadn't expected her to try and make me wear it to that goddamn birthday party. With my choice of three snap-on bow ties. I wore the suit to church on Sundays and to Bible meetings on Thursday nights. By that time Dad had pretty much given up on me and I was my mother's responsibility. OL14942530W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.11 Pages 150 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230321232541 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 356 Scandate 20230313052712 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780791061787 Tts_version 5.I was twelve when Mom got me the corduroy suit. Urn:oclc:record:1322287378 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier stephenking0000unse_h9r0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s206wp82hcp Invoice 1652 Isbn 0791061787 Lccn 2002005481 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9616 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000300 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:15:30 Associated-names Bloom, Harold Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40877815 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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