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Gideon McDonald

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on the Mother

Gideon McDonald

Submitted to Contest #200

on the Mother Irish catholic; dirt-poor, bloody big mob, Father (school principal) (can’t swim); smokes cigarettes at the beach, thirty-five raucous 10-year-olds wear-themselves-out in the water, sing; Crocodile Rock, laaaaa la la la la laa, stingers pulled off, sprayed with vinegar, Father, shifts house seven times, Father - waiting to hit a jackpot, gives spare change to Saint Vincent de Paul - can’t afford it, in that regional town of old farming stock, but townies, like the rest. Mother; devoted to the Father and the kids, and hardy ...

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