The aunt immediately stood in front of Liberty, preventing the drunk from staring at Liberty. Then she pretended to be chatting and asked Liberty, “Is the child’s father coming back soon?”
Liberty replied: “Soon.”
Hank would be discharged from the hospital after staying for a while longer.
It was true that he would come back soon, and of course he would not come back to her.
She and Hank had been divorced for a year.
The aunt teased Sonny again: “Miss your father?”
Sonny replied honestly: “I think so, my mother took me to see my father on weekends.”
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