Her mother, one of the world's great guilt-mongers, accused her, unable to contain her alarm, "I'll bet he's a Communist."
Pause, then her Lucille Ball comic-voice reply. "Welllllllll..."
All that summer her mother stalks her, driving by late at night searching out her car hidden haphazardly in the back yard.
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