[IronJack]

First wife, the deadbeat, had a mother who was a southern belle from South Carolina. As honeysuckle a damsel as you'd ever meet. Her father was a blue-collar ex-Marine who had fought on Guadalcanal and Iwo, smoked three packs of Lucky Strikes a day, and collected tools like some people collect stamps. Hard-working, good-hearted people.

Their daughter was an emotionally arrested bum, little more than an overgrown child. No sense of responsibility. No maturity. Really no grasp of the adult world.

[GraceG]

[ Hard-working, good-hearted people. ]

Sometimes monsters can come from good hearted people’s loins. For some reason parents with the best of intentions can raise up the worst monsters.

Prosperity Breeds Monsters... is a quote that comes to mind...