Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stops to listen and his zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred. You stay." He comes though, lacing himself in her footsteps all the way down the first barranca. The angel kicks him. Alfred...
What happened? The angel who went in search of her castout boy soon realized she had to give him up for lost, the blond girl who overreached in a single day light clambered down a 1600 foot escarpment. She learned. She discovered Ada was right, and paid the price. She ended up face down in a ravine at sunset, belly aching and self broken open and bleeding red and sweet like a pomegranate. When Merilee crashed at the bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came...
...know about this we. I know I and that's enough for now. Twenty-three years of struggle and suffering to know so much. Renfro. Merilee Anne Renfro, 262 Eucalyptus Way, South San Angel, Calif. 353-0101. I am eight and I'm not supposed to talk to strangers. Always have though. Or men in cars with candy...
Flat broke, they wired South Philadelphia and South San Angel and from various parents received just enough money to get them back across the border through T.J. The ghee had long since run out and the trip was a real sweetheart, Alfred humping away uselessly at Girl in the cramped back seat, Sam driving in silence and Merilee and Girl getting bad karma from everything. Girl finally bit Alfred's tail, but Merilee restrained herself...
Through it all, Crowley moves like a recording angel, catching every nuance, every diphthong of homosexual patter. But the script is marked by more than an appraiser's eye and an unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...