“Me and your mother, we never had no place,” Ralph said. “We don’t want that for you.” Penelope knew very well that she would never move back into the house on Halsey Street. She would just as soon go back to having Mirella as her mother, but she didn’t want to trouble her father anymore, not when she still had to convince him to get down on the floor at home and try some stretches, not order another rum and Coke.
