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Ruth had to start kindergarten before Orpha was a month
old. To be separated from her father as her father was preoccupied with this
little drowned rat of a child was too cruel. On top of thatthey put Orpha’s crib
in the room Ruth had formerly had to herselfthe room her father had built
especially for her. It reminded Ruth of the Bible story where Adam and Eve
had to leave the Garden of Edenonly Ruth hadn’t broken any rulesat least
not any big ones. At night she would ask God to take Orpha back to Himand
then curl up and hide under the covers in shame at her own evil thoughts.
When Orpha “failed to thrive” as the doctors called itRuth was tortured by
guilt. One day she heard her father tell a hired hand that Ruth’s mother had been
too old to have another childand that he didn’t know if Orpha would ever have a
normal life. In his tone of voice she heard him pulling back from the sickly Orpha
and her instinctive thrill of triumph brought on more nights of torment.
Meanwhileschool proved not so bad in the endand less emotionally com-
plicated than home had become. She quickly had the run of the place. Once
the girls found out who her father wasthey all wanted to be friendsand the
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