Word: lolita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis went in. In the hallway, on a mattress, lay the naked body of his wife, Lolita, in a welter of blood. Beside her was a broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...
...went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father. She remembered she did not have a nickel for a pay phone...