09/03/2026 04:12

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'See you in two days!' Nurse Edna said to Homer, too loudly. 'The father of _this_ one— yeah, he here,' she said, patting her flat stomach. Since he would have had no choice but to attend the movies with Candy _and_ Debra Pettigrew, he was grateful to the war effort for sparing him that awkwardness. Don't wait.

If he had been named by this dull, love-struck nurse, he probably would have been a Larch or a Wilbur of one kind or another; and a John, a Jack, or a Robert—to make matters even duller. He kept his distance. But at suppertime, Muddy came to the kitchen door alone. After all, he had worked in the South End.