GRGR 31: naughty Nalline

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jul 11 21:12:25 CDT 2000


Where are those Irish Catholic Boys? Tell us about this one. 

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> 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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