GRGR 31: naughty Nalline

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Tue Jul 11 20:44:35 CDT 2000


About Jack Kennedy, Nalline tells papa Joe, "Really I love Jack like 
Hogan and Tyrone, just like a son, my own son. I even love him like I 
don't love my sons, ha ha! (she croaks) but then I'm a wicked old 
babe, you know that."

Teenaged Tyrone/The Kid would seem to be judging his mother rather 
harshly in this imagined letter, depicting her as an alcoholic of the 
maudlin and wanton (her sex fantasies would seem to be focused on 
Jack not "fellow Harvard parent" Joe) type.




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