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40 OVERHEARD ON A BUS (Woman with a cleft palate) “My husband up and left—gone away. But me, I’m keeping on. I work by day. It’s my old Dad-in-law. He’s not my own, But still I call him ‘Pa’— Eighty-five and down in bed— Sort of touchy. It’s his head. But Pa—well, he— Always say he treated me Good enough. It’s turn about— It’s hard, they tell me; Say, to put him out. But I ain’t got no people of my own.” ...

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