He swallowed hard on bitter words and changed what he would have liked to say three times before it became articulate.
"Elnora," he said at last, "if it hadn't been for one thing I'd have tried to take legal steps to make you ours when you were three years old.

Maggie said then it wasn't any use, but I've always held on.

You see, I was the first man there, honey, and there are things you see, that you can't ever make anybody else understand.

She loved him Elnora, she just made an idol of him.

There was that oozy green hole, with the thick scum broke, and two or three big bubbles slowly rising that were the breath of his body.