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Me and Mam: On the Lake 139

head back to our lives on the land, dad is brought up out of
the blue, and we talk about visitin him in the nursin home
where he was just after havin his second stroke and where he
sits wrapped in an afghan ravin through bubbles of spit, and
from the way that he had with the men, Mam said, his way o’
talkin and lookin at them, I’d a notion a long time he was one
of yer kind, never mind all the childer we had, and she left it
at that and I’ll always remember that time and that day we
chatted about our murderous sides as also bein the closest
she ever got to talkin about me, what I am.

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