[…] Ramona Calvert: Hey honey, your momma called a while ago, she said she’d be home soon. You want me to tuck you in? Bernice: (nods) Ramona Calvert: How tight? Bernice: Tight. Ramona Calvert: (tucking in bedding) Okay…as snug as a bug in a rug. (beat) You’re so much like your momma, she used to live me to tuck her in real tight. Bernice: I’m not like her. We’re different. It’s like we’re not even relatives. Ramona Calvert: Ah well. Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Relatives are trouble, I couldn’t agree more. Did I ever tell you about Walter, my brother? Huh? Well, what you have to go through with your mother, suffering, that’s what I had to suffer with Walter. One day we were playing out back, down by the river, and we came across the most beautiful anthill you ever saw. And then Walter, he immediately kicked it, and stomped on it, just, just, scattered it to the four winds, I just started howling. I was just, I yelled for my momma, I grabbed her and dragged her down there, just crying and carrying on, anyway my momma was trying to calm me down so she wait, wait, they’re not finished, not by …read more […]