Oh, good riddance to old meat-hand! It’s about time! Your guilt had you hanging on for too many months. Disfigurement or not, the guy has some really odd tendencies and a chip the size of Italy on his shoulder. And Buffer didn’t like him. That right there is enough reason to be rid of him. Listen to me, you did your time and then some. You found a way to camouflage his problem in the most distinguished manner, and I hope he wears it well after all the penance you paid.
She thought back to the day of her “release,” as she now thought of it.
“Why can’t you go to church on Easter Sunday, like the nice Catholic child I raised?” her mother clucked disapprovingly.
She’d decided that her date was not worthy of her last pair of silk stockings and replied absently in her mother’s direction. “Now
