Nev stopped coming. Probably he got bored or uncomfortable with being left out of the conversation—we would be drinking and getting loose, arguing loud about Angela [Davis] and George [Jackson] and everything that was going down, and I don’t think Nev knew what to say or how to handle it. And then Corinne stopped waiting up because the sessions were going later and later and she had her nursing shift in the morning, a real job, so she’d be asleep upstairs. Folks fell away till it was just your daddy and me… tiptoeing in the house, whispering on his living room couch. He’d chain-smoke
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