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Merilee looking at Ada. Ada looking at Merilee. The whole story in intricate detail passing between them of how Ada abandoned the man with the black grease stains...
...Ada rap once. Mama isn't fooled by much, and so she undertook, with suspicious curling about her mouth, to tell Merilee the following: ". . . and those hippic girls you know, they're such dope fiends they get so hopped up on their dope you know what they do? they forget their own little babies and leave them in the streets that's what they do you know...
What happened? The angel who went in search of her castout boy soon realized she had to give him up for lost, the blond girl who overreached in a single day light clambered down a 1600 foot escarpment. She learned. She discovered Ada was right, and paid the price. She ended up face down in a ravine at sunset, belly aching and self broken open and bleeding red and sweet like a pomegranate. When Merilee crashed at the bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came...
...from the circus. Who could ever have thought Merilee would be marrying a guy who managed the Sea Anchor Motel in Balboa, who earned thirteen-five. a guy who was winging it up to a hotel convention in San Francisco this morning? The news would blow Ada Mama's ever-loving mind...
...from all eyes, Merilee got hung up. There were these two truffles scrunched together in a single glass jar, and it just didn't seem right. When she finally reached the checkout counter, the Stefan brother had disappeared. Praying for his return and for miracles, Merilee let the nice Ada looking person who had replaced him ring up her things and put them in four big shopping bags...