Now you would not think to call me sensitive but more of asissy because of my crying and you would also think my sister Amy wouldbe angry at me for my...depending on her for s much and part of my storystarts with that. One-day mom and dad were out shopping for food (whichthey had to do a lot) and I had slept in but I woke up hearing voicesso I walked out into the hallway and stopped dead in my tracks when Iheard Jill say "don't you think Joe is such a big pussy?" and Tracyreply "yeah he cries. Some days later the publican of the village tavern, the White Horse, and a former servant of the family, informed her a stranger had been asking questions about the newly returned widow and her son."Bearsted is on a well-used smuggler's trail from the south coast to London, and the villagers maintain a tradition of keeping their tongues still when asked questions by strangers, suspecting them to be Revenue Men." Caroline explained. "I asked the landlord of the White Horse for more details, and. She knew I didn’t like it but did it anyway. She would tell me how these guys were going to be businessmen, like I gave a shit what these guys did. As I mentioned, Darlene and I were always on-again, off-again. This time I really didn’t like the way she let other guys feel her up when they were dancing. I figured I’d get even with her and did the same things with one of her girlfriends. Her girlfriend didn’t mind. I wasn’t sure why I was doing it, probably to get even with Darlene. What Darlene. Hisformer friends shunned him after that, they were growing weary of hisantics and wanted nothing to do with someone who would hurt his familybecause he had changed when she too had undergone the same change. Heswore he'd get her for what she did to him, never realizing that it wasthe final straw with the girls as all of them told him to leave themalone or he'd face the consequences - their parents.He backed away when his own father told him that it he laid a finger onany of the girls,.