Ruso gets a place for the slave girl whose arm he has mended. Financial troubles grow. Letter from his brother asking permission to sell the farm. Ruso says no, not yet. Ruso hopeful of becoming Chief Medical Officer--increase in pay. Continues to live with Valens, another Medicus, who is well-meaning but a slob. Ruso is being harassed by hospital administration which wants to control so much of the day to day expenses that Ruso feels they are impinging on his medicine. Moving along nicely.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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