Blind Judgement g-5
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Butterfield has told me that Paul figured out from her boys how desperate she was and began to put the scheme together after Willie turned him down the first time. Her payoff was supposed to be a farm that Paul owned. Instead, she is doing a life sentence as well.
According to Butterfield it was to be for her boys, something to pass on. I have wondered if it was my grandfather’s property. A nice irony if it was. Land.
Sometimes, it seems more of a curse than a blessing in this part of the country.
Jessie spies a squirrel and makes a dash for it, but it scrambles up a tree just in time. What if she had caught it? I’ve heard it said that it isn’t always such a good idea to get the thing you wish for.
Except for Eddie, all the Tings are gone forever from Bear Creek. Tommy has returned to D.C., and Mrs. Ting has moved to Memphis to live with Connie. The plant, according to Eddie, has begun to make a profit again. Good for Eddie.
Perhaps, because he is younger, and has experienced less rejection, he is more comfortable in a small town than his cousins. Poor Bear Creek.
So much tension, so little hope. Of course, that is a white person thinking out loud. Maybe some of the African-American population see it differently.
I squint at my watch. A quarter to eleven. Dan will be coming over for lunch in a few minutes with his new girlfriend, a schoolteacher he met through the personals column in the Little Rock Free Press. So much for his dating service. I smile at the thought of my best friend.
The idiot is wearing a gold ring in his left ear and looks ridiculous.
Some guys can pull it off, but not Dan. When I asked why, he grinned.
“It’s kind of a fuck-you statement,” he admitted.
“But it’s harmless. I don’t wear it to court.”
Harmless? As I call Jessie and head back to the house, I think of all the pain I stirred up in Bear Creek. Sometimes, I don’t think I am.
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