Shes in the bed with the baby. Malachy and Michael are up in Italy
asleep. I know I dont have to tell Mam anything, that soon when the
pubs close hell be home singing and offering us a penny to die for Ire-
land and it will be different now because its bad enough to drink the
dole or the wages but a man that drinks the money for a new baby is
gone beyond the beyonds as my mother would say.
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