![]() ![]() Ruth also remembered that it was her mother's turn to stay with her. When Ruth woke to the foreign sound, she at first wasn't sure if it was her mother or her father who was throwing up then, despite the unfamiliarity of the disturbance, Ruth recognized that measure of melancholy and contained hysteria which was often detectable in her mother's voice. It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced-when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. Her parents spent alternate nights in the family house with Ruth there was a rental house nearby, where Ruth's mother or father stayed when they weren't staying with Ruth. ![]() It was not as simple a matter as her parents having separate bedrooms that summer they had separate houses, although Ruth never saw the other house. Ruth had recently been ill with a stomach flu when she first heard her mother making love, Ruth thought that her mother was throwing up. It was a totally unfamiliar sound to her. One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking-it was coming from her parents' bedroom. ![]()
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