From time to time, we shared the road with a tractor pulling a wagon and with many motorcycles. Cars were in the minority here and most of those were ...elics from the 1940’s or 1950’s. The homes (if you could call them that) were small and in poor repair. Every structure seemed in need of repair and several coats of paint. Before long, we pulled up to a house where an older woman was hanging clothes on a clothesline. The woman turned to look at us when she heard the motor. ‘Felicita,’ she. That’s when her date pulled her close and kissed her for the cameras. If I was not livid before, I was now. Just then I got a text from my man. “I’m on it Boss” and sent a picture of the lovebirds. J.J. (Jake Jr.) walked in seeing the screen and said whose that with Mom, Dad? Not wanting to alarm him, I just said, someone she works with, JJ. He said, He kissed her, Dad. Why would a coworker kiss her? JJ is smarter than his years. What else could I say... ? He left the room and I kept watching. ”“She wants me to get her pregnant,” I said softly. “She and Danny have been trying for a long time, and it isn’t working.”I had run out of words, and my mother was staring at me, her mouth hanging open.“Nessa was so upset I had to calm her down and send her home,” she said. “I told her everything would be all right, and that we’d work it out. She said something about you trying to get her pregnant too.”“That’s because Grandma said I should,” I said.My mother swayed.“Maybe you’d better tell me. By closing time, nearly every man in the pub had made use of Betty’s martyred anus. Yet now in her drunkenness, she couldn’t recall most any of them. A few men who had presented themselves early enough in the night managed to stand out—there was the lanky bald fellow who claimed to be a prize fighter, there was the hideous fogey with the bent penis who paid extra to have her twice in a row, there was the fast-talking Irish grease monkey who repeatedly offered in vain to buy her in full for a.