“That’s just his way of coping, dear,” Emma told her softly. “Billy has always had to ride hard on his anger. One of his main failings is that when he allows himself to get mad, he’s ‘mad all over’, as my grandmother used to say. He’s mad, and he can’t control himself. He knows that. So he keeps himself bottled up. I’m afraid one day that will do him more harm than good.” “What do you mean?” Rhonda asked. “Oh, I don’t mean he’ll hurt anyone,” Emma assured her at once. “But bottling all that anger up inside isn’t healthy. It’s hard on the system. Something else my grandma used to say,” she
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