She needs to know that I'm already married, before we ask her to come with us." She knows we're getting married, Kenny." Then there isn't any harm in ...aiting until after you deliver, and she graduates. I want her to know we're already married before she decides if she wants to do this or not." Mama's already talked with her about it, just to feel her out a little for us. She thinks Brenda would agree if you're the one that asks her." Joyce, you and Mama seem determined to create problems for me. She reached over andscooped up a glob on her finger and thrust it into his nostrils."You're gonna learn to love that smell," she said with a laugh.With her weight off him Peter found the energy to jump off the bed andrush to the bathroom where he puked his guts out. His grandmotherentered the room a few minutes later and told him to take a shit, then ashower and call her when he finished. He stood on wobbly feet the smellof her still strong enough to bring a burst of the dry heaves. . You see, Marlene has a problem - she looks like a slut.It's really not her fault and outside of never leaving the inside of our house there doesn't seem to be anything she can do about it. It doesn't matter how she wears her hair, what style of clothes or make up she wears she still looks like and gives off the aura of a slut. She looked like a slut in her wedding dress, she looked like a slut in her maternity clothes, and when her father died and she went to his funeral in basic black and. But I had no realrelationship on any level with this youngster. Still, I could tell thatshe was troubled, and being the nice guy that I was, I couldn't resistthe opportunity to help her out if I could."Well, if you want to talk about it, or perhaps some advice from a wiseold man - you let me know." Knowing full well that she knew where to findme... everyone in town did.That night, while I was working my night-watch shift at the localfactory, I heard that she was on the outs with her boyfriend.