The Girl Who Worked for Peanuts

The Girl Who Worked for PeanutsThere once lived a woman who had made some poor choices in her life, one of which resulted in her now 17-year-old daughter. Another poor choice was the woman ’s new live-in boyfriend. All you need to know about him at this point is that, whenever he was home, the 17-year-old girl had to keep her bedroom door locked and braced.Unfortunately, the girl ’s mother made one final poor choice just as our story opens. In an effort to peg the needle on the pleasure gauge, she accidentally mixed too much of too many things, with the result that she ripped her soul right out of her body.Within a few minutes after the end of the funeral, the now ex-boyfriend assumed that the woman ’s house was now his, along with the woman’s daughter. When he apprised the girl of his conclusion, the ink on the period at the end of his last sentence was not dry before she informed him, clearly and distinctly, that there was medication for the kind of delusions he was suffering and that she recommended he take the maximum dose.At this rebuff, the ex-boyfriend launched a fusillade of expletives, insults, threats, demands, and animadversions, accompanied by a complete set of those words —in two languages, for he was bilingual—that are still rather frowned upon among churchgoers. Then he said, “I can’t afford to let you live here for free. You’ll have to go out and earn money any way you can. Unless—,” he added, in a tone that made clear what the “unless...
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