“Henry Hillington was as mean and nasty as one of those snakes they dance with on Sunday mornings. A man like that hates himself and don’t know why, so he blames everybody else for the way he feels. He treated that boy worse than Elias did. He smacked him around, called him names, made fun of the way that boy walked and talked so much I hollered at him more than once to just leave him the fuck alone,” Griselda said. She stubbed out her cigarette and lit another one.
