American Pastrol Page #2

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Not for this reunion thing.

The Swede is...

Just a sweetheart whose fate

was to get himself f***ed

over by some real crazies.

My brother, the best you're

going to get in this country

got caught in a war

he didn't start.

Jerry...

I have no idea what

you're talking about.

No? You don't know? Were

you alive during the '60s?

Well, I wasn't here.

I was, you know...

I was out of country

for most of the '60s.

Oh, I guess you're

the last person to hear, huh?

The famous writer, the last

one to hear the big story.

What is it, then,

this big story?

Well, you know he

and Dawn had a kid.

You wrote to me

after she was born.

Adorable when she was little.

So she had a stutter.

That was nothing.

To hell with that.

But then merry got older

and when she did...

I told him. I told him,

"let her go.

"Otherwise it will rot your

gut and take your life, too."

But he couldn't.

And now I'm burying my brother.

She was a good kid.

Jerry was correct.

Here I was, the famous writer,

the last one to know the story.

But now I wanted all of it.

I wanted to hear what had

become of the young man

from whom we had

expected everything.

Our hero.

Our Kennedy.

Grandpa.

Grandpa.

Yes, merry, what?

Lady Jane's going to

have a calf, grandpa.

I hope it's a heifer.

What's a heifer, sweetheart?

You're talking to

a guy from Newark.

It's a girl, grandpa.

Oh, a girl.

I bet it's going to

look just like count.

That's who mounted her.

"Mounted"?

Is that a way

for a young girl to talk?

That's what it's called, dad.

Yeah, what's she

supposed to say?

- "Make love"? It's a cow.

And what does

my son need with cows?

Why do they need to live

this far from civilization?

No offense to the locals,

Mr. Orcutt,

Mrs. Orcutt,

but let's be candid.

This is all rock-ribbed

republican out here.

That's true. That's so.

Lou, don't start.

What did I say?

We're out in the middle of nowhere.

This is Ku Klux Klan country.

Dad, will you stop?

I don't see why my brother

wants to live here either

but a couple of cows

doesn't make it Mississippi.

This is Morris county.

Grandpa!

Jerry's right, dad.

No one thinks like you anymore.

We can live where we want.

This is America.

Newark is in America.

Grandpa!

Yes, darling.

What? Yes, sweetheart.

Come to the barn to see count.

Wait till you meet him.

He's so...

I adore merry.

I think she's very special.

- Thank you.

- We all do.

She likes coming here.

She told us that.

Yeah, very much.

Sometimes when

she's here, I ask her,

"merry, what terrible thing

do you think would happen

"if you stopped stuttering?

"How do you think your father or your

mother would feel if you stopped?"

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