Nooooooo!

Sometimes something just so TERRIBLE and so PAINFUL happens in a book, you know? And you kind of recognize it had to happen, or some variety of it had to, but it HURTS SO BAD when it does, all the same. Especially the particulars of it. And if the whole thing unfolded as you were reading in the kitchen, waiting for supper to be ready? Then there is much weeping during that supper. Behold. The sketch below is not an exaggeration. Ask anyone who was present.

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