Nine Night

Text of the day: “It was you who talked me round though. In the absence of a father, we had you, and God. The other mums would shout, ‘Wait till your father gets home.’ Whereas Mum would say, ‘When yuh get to Heaven, yuh see, God will deal wid yuh.’ I was never sure if that was an incentive to behave or not.” (Robert in Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night)

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