Olive was generous about letting Homer use the van. He was confident that he would always have time to recover. If Homer Wells had been an amateur historian, he would have been as much of a revisionist as Wilbur Larch—he would have tried to make everything come out all right in the end. Rose would speak this way about his daughter when she was standing beside him, looking a little embarrassed.
'Does he know that?' 'You love me sometimes,' Homer said. The other problem was mosquitoes. Fathers are a bother in the delivery room. He was not ashamed that he loved the Worthingtons' wall-to-wall carpeting; he'd come from bare wood walls and many layers of linoleum, between which one could feel the sawdust shift underfoot.
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