The Red Coat by Dolley Carlson

Author:Dolley Carlson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Ethel McDonough was extremely fussy about aprons. “I like the straps to button at my neck. The criss-cross kind drive me crazy with the way they always slip off. I have no time for such nonsense.”

Mrs. Mac was taken by surprise. Nobody ever talked about “the baby girl we lost,” and she assumed Bob must have said something. The answer came as she stared somewhere above Rita’s head. “Her name was Ruth Ann.”

The wistful woman dried her hands, walked across the kitchen, sat down and with her right hand smoothed the bare table surface back and forth, as if sweeping something away, perhaps the last crumb of sorrow. “Ruth, because I’ve always loved that name, and Ann for my sister, Anna.” A tear appeared on the back of Ethel McDonough’s blue-veined hand. She wiped it away, and without hurry, put the tablecloth back in place. After all these years, tears still fell for the baby girl named Ruth, “because I’ve always loved that name.” Ann, “for my sister.”

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