Breeding Ground (2013)
“It’s something behind their eyes, no matter how different they are from each other. You can see the danger, and the suffering, and the hard edge that got them through it. The peace they want is niggling at them too, that some seem to make for themselves. That others seem afraid of.
I wonder what WWI did to Dad? He never talked about it that I remember. But memory’s a strange thing. I can see Gabe trotting home without Dad – and Daddy lying dead in the woods with an arm flung wide. I know he... would’ve wanted it just that way. A heart attack on the back of a horse, not in some cold white hospital room. But why that comes to mind every few weeks, but not Mom’s death nearly that often I can’t begin to explain… Wednesday, April 18, 1962 Even though she’d gotten very little sleep, Jo was in the kitchen early, in one of Tom’s T-shirts and her softest sweat pants, looking for whatever information Toss might’ve left – while Emmy leapt and scooted around the side yard.MoreLess
I wonder what WWI did to Dad? He never talked about it that I remember. But memory’s a strange thing. I can see Gabe trotting home without Dad – and Daddy lying dead in the woods with an arm flung wide. I know he... would’ve wanted it just that way. A heart attack on the back of a horse, not in some cold white hospital room. But why that comes to mind every few weeks, but not Mom’s death nearly that often I can’t begin to explain… Wednesday, April 18, 1962 Even though she’d gotten very little sleep, Jo was in the kitchen early, in one of Tom’s T-shirts and her softest sweat pants, looking for whatever information Toss might’ve left – while Emmy leapt and scooted around the side yard.MoreLess
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