Mad wondered, if they had come on a week when their father wasn’t watching Rooster, if he would have told them any of this, if he would have excised this new child and the sister heiresses from his narrative. She imagined that he would, how quickly he would shed people to create an identity that fit his needs. It was hard for her to hate him, even though he had hurt them all in such profound ways that were nearly impossible to explain to another person. Even now, she watched him trying to compartmentalize his brain and his memories in such a way that he could keep all of them distinctly
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