

She looked so fresh and clean and happy that he wondered what she was doing on this shithole street. She was dressed in a clean, fresh, red-gingham dress with matching red bows in her neatly braided pigtails. Paul watched the little black girl toss her pebble or cigarette butt or whatever it was to square number five, then expertly hop, hop, hop her way safely to the square and back. He didn’t think kids played hopscotch anymore. Paul looked out the filthy window and watched the little girl playing in the filthier street below. You tell them Mommy and Daddy will always be there. You tell them everything will be all right.

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