An American Harvest by Raper Cardy;

Author:Raper, Cardy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green Writers Press
Published: 2016-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Oh Blanche! I’m ever so glad I came a generation later. My childhood as the only girl with five older brothers took an opposite turn. Those boys had me doing everything they did: football, baseball, swimming, skiing, hiking, camping, fishing, boating. Our parents went along with that. I fondly remember my brothers’ highest praise: “That’s pretty good—for a girl.”

JOHN:

Well I thought you ought to have gone swimming with the rest of us.

Young John in school.

Our father may have extolled education, but not in matters of sex. When I first felt stirrings for a pretty young thing, along about fifth grade, I was innocent enough to convey my yearnings to the object of them in writing. She turned my note over to her mother who turned it over to the teacher who turned it over to our father who turned me over a sawhorse and belted my bare backsides. That was the only sex education I got from either of my parents.

ARTHUR:

The only kissing I knew of that went on around our house was on the occasions when Mama would put Blanche to bed, when she was little, or wake her up in the morning. I’d wished I was a girl so’s I could get some of it.

BLANCHE:

I must have been little, Arthur, for I don’t remember that.

RALPH:

I guess we all got kissed when we were babies but not after we’d gotten old enough to remember it. I never saw Mama kiss Papa or vice versa, nor did I ever hear ’em saying mean things to one another, like most folks do on occasion. Mama was fair at sarcasm though; she had a wit, and she’d use it to express her dissatisfaction with the way the farm was run. She’d toss a sidewise swipe at Papa now and again, but that’d be about the size of it.

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