Word: castout
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...Silver, Todd is a dream of retribution come true. All those years of living life gay and castout by his Main Line banking father finally get cashed in with the opportunity to create purpose out of misery. The purpose is revenge; slow, torturous, deadly revenge. How satisfying to watch Grace race about the stage straightening and fussing, talking herself into a frenzy and pretending she cannot hear while Todd reiterates the four letter disease louder and louder. And for Dad, a full, five-year sexual history chock-full of moves that don't even sound fun for Todd suffocating...
...acts as tour guide, is portrayed as a prime example of American capitalism's cruelty to the poor, a man who was ejected from his humble rented room by a rich and heartless landlady who wanted to turn it into a sewing room, a bent but not broken castout...
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...
...capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known as the "Henhouse Hicks." The Hicks furnished their clubhouse with castout furniture collected pictures of such girlhood idols as Clark Gable and Nelson Eddy, put out a weekly paper which lasted for five issues and produced a play which was favorably noticed by the Independence Examiner...
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