You Think You Know Me Pretty Well Aka Mercy
“said Alex.
“Edgar always wanted a son and when I gave him a daughter he was bitterly disappointed.”
“Was this because of the son from his first marriage that he lost?”
Her eyes widened.
“You know about that?”
“I spoke to Anita Morgan. She told me the whole thing: the car accident, the decline in their marriage, Edgar’s sterility, your desperation to give him a son.”
“Yes, but do you know why I was so desperate to give him a son?”
“I don’t know … to make him happy I guess.”
“No, Mr. Sedaka it was not to make him happy. It was to stop him being unhappy. Because when Edgar was unhappy he took it out on other people. And the person he took it out on most was Dorothy. Even when she was a baby.”
“What did he do to her?”
“Oh he didn’t hit her or anything like that. He just shunned her. He would hardly talk to her. When she started to walk, he would leave the room if she crawled in. He never picked her up, never held her in his arms.”
“Was that because he knew that she wasn’t his daughter?”
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