Thursday, January 7, 2010

She's Leaving Home

Looking back over the years from her Park Avenue penthouse, Carlotta realized that that had been the very moment at which she left little Ethel Mae from Wilkes Barre behind once and for all.

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  1. A regular Hedda Gablerwitz if you ask me...

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  2. And once she left the hat box containing Carl's head on the uptown bus, she knew her small town Pennsylvania past would never find her.

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  3. But she carried her head with her everywhere she went.

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  4. And, she thought, if I left the head on the bus, then people would know that I mingle with the common man.

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