Chapter Eight
Florence Hagerty, who is Margaret’s mother, was a tall buxom woman with thick salt and pepper hair and a stolid dignified demeanor. Rimless glasses framed her soft hazel eyes. Her bustline was expansive and without the benefit of a bra nearly waist-deep. She never married, preferring to have her only child Margaret out of wedlock. At the time, it had been quite scandalous, but as was her way, she snubbed the gossips and imbued in her daughter a sense of feminine superiority and dominance. Richie knew nothing of his grandmother’s background. What he did know was the first time Nana saw him she had swept him into her capacious bosom and loved him as if he were her own blood. Shortly after their first meeting, he painfully learned there would be swift retribution when he didn’t
