“So that had to be a dead giveaway. Delia, no matter how you had distanced yourself, you had to recall how Logan loved to refer to Ana as ‘that Blackgal.’ “
“Logan—huh?”
“Yeah, somehow ‘father’ seems inappropriate.”
“I never could hate him, you know.... I saved that emotion for
Mother. I’ve always despised weakness in a man or a woman.”
“Again, babygirl, our differences show. Too bad you turned your anger in the wrong direction, Momma was never the weak one; she stuck with that weak sonofabitch! As a matter of fact, if it weren’t for her compassion. . . he’d be in the poorhouse, getting whatever assistance he could from the state. The meager check he gets from the church is barely enough to feed him. And on top of that, Ana is the only one of his children that will even visit him
