So out the door went Verna, starry-eyed with hero worship, wobbling on her first high heels.
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There Verna spent the days peeling potatoes and scrubbing floors and scouring toilets along with her fellow-delinquents.
Bob had spread it himself, in a farcical version that was very different from what Verna herself remembered.
Verna says that she, too, has a single: worth the extra expense, because that way you can really relax.
He looks pleased with himself: maybe he thinks Verna is blushing with desire.
The Verna of the day before had died, and a different Verna had solidified in her place: stunted, twisted, mangled.
The second speaker is the archeologist, who, to Verna, looks about twelve.
Meanwhile, the passengers will have scattered to the winds, Verna among them.
Verna picks up one of the quarters, examines the layers, each year black, gray, black, gray, black, and at the bottom the featureless core.
For meek Verna, life was church and studies and household chores and her weekend job clerking in the drugstore, with her grim-faced mother regulating every move.
Once she could walk, Verna was given five dollars and a bus ticket and instructed to return to the guardianship of her mother, because she was still a minor.
When she reaches the bags with the life jackets, Verna fumbles with her shoelaces until all eyes are elsewhere and she can cram an extra life jacket into her backpack.
When it was evident that the worst had happened, she bought Verna a bus ticket and shipped her off to a church-run Home for Unwed Mothers on the outskirts of Toronto.
What little her mother had to say through her clamp of a mouth was to the point: Verna had made her own bed, and now she would have to lie in it.
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