Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take it out back," said Mother. "Way out back of the barn. No, farther-farther...
...Mother said: "You know how boys are. They just want to hear the bang. I hope they don't burn the barn down...
...stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...
Lillian was too young to suspect that kindly "Doc" Field, who was more repressed than most of the characters in Before the Sun Goes Down, had been secretly in love with her mother for nearly 20 years, and even kept a bridal bed made up in hopeful readiness. While waiting, "once a year in New York [Doc] found a woman whose body was slim and whose hair was fair and whose eyes were grey and he took her to bed, and for an instant out of all time he let himself believe that her flesh was the color of ripe...
When Author Seton kills off Father & Mother Cameron in a few swift pages of cholera and hemorrhages, kindly Mexicans adopt Fey. Later, handsome, rascally Terry Dillon finds Fey a helpful partner in selling Dr. Dillon's Extra Special Elixir, a snake oil whose chief ingredient is river water. Said the Indians: "The Great Spirit meant you for a better destiny...