7‘Well now—looky here who decided to help her poor Mama today! Get your clothesline fingers ready and grab up all the pins.’
Praise the lord, the girl was up and about. I had a lotta washin’ and ironin’ to do. At least Hank comes back with his shirts still crisp. Don’t know how he does it and don’t know why I go to the trouble, to be honest. Thought he might have a few more wives out there ironin’ like me. That man was the least of my troubles, though. If he had other families out there, so be it, as long as he kept biscuits on this table. He knew I wasn’t no stranger to the ways of a man, especially one out there runnin’ free county to county with no way for me to know what he’s doin’. Gots to have faith, I reckoned, but faith was the same as just accepting what you have and not rockin’
