Chapter 9
Northern Minnesota
“Thelma, I was reading this woman’s magazine that I picked up at the grocery store. It had an article about rape.” Alice took a deep breath. “It says it’s r**e if a husband has s*x when a wife doesn’t want to.” Again, she drew a deep breath. “What do you think?”
Alice and her best friend, Thelma, were sitting at Thelma’s kitchen table enjoying their daily gossip sessions with a fresh brewed pot of coffee and bags of sweet treats from the Day Old Bakery.
Thelma just stared at Alice. “I think you’d better stop reading those magazines that put fancy ideas in your head. If a husband wants his wife, it’s her duty. It’s not r**e. Get that rubbish outta your head.”
“But he hits me,” Alice bitterly spat out her protest.
“Sometimes men just can’t control themselve
