'i hoped of course that he'd recover and that we would live there

and when he was ill the nurse cut down a uniform and put it on her

and she was her assistant and she'd bring a cool drink up to her father.

she felt very useful.

then of course she was sent to the hospital and he had his leg amputated.

the first thing she said; 'well you have to buy a pair of shoes'.

and then of course when he died, i had to tell the children in the morning that her father had 

died, that he wasn't suffering anymore 

that it..and then..

while lauren rejoiced that i was young and healthy and clung to me, 

sylvia just slipped underneath the covers of her bed and said-

i'll never speak to god again.

for she had been praying.

every nightthat her father would be well and be sent home'.
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