Lorna Sage

Bad Blood

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    Marj was my schoolgirl mother’s brand-new best friend. Valma, my mother, had just turned sixteen that spring of 1934, and Marj was a year or at most two years older. She’d left school and was at a loose end, waiting for a hospital place to train as a nurse. She spent a lot of time at the vicarage, almost lived there, because she had in a sense no home.
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    Grandma had blackmailed Grandpa for years, by threatening to show his private diary to the Bishop unless he handed over part of his stipend every quarter?
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    . I couldn’t resist the
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    longing to be liked and accepted, even though it was so transparent its very intensity undermined my efforts. No one in the second eleven was more than dutifully friendly; they were embarrassed by my neediness and wary. Only in her company could I forget myself.
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    When, in my teens, I quarrelled with my mother, she would say in despair and disgust, “You’re just like your grandfather,” meaning
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    with the carving knife one of the many times when he came home pissed and incapable.”
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    had a scar down his hollow cheek, too, which Grandma had done
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    The high school liked girls with rounded characters, loyal, outgoing, serviceable girls who made the best of themselves.
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    marry local traders and solicitors like their fathers. Th
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    The high school cultivated the air of being somehow still fee-paying, it was designed to produce solid, disciplined, well-groomed girls who’d
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