![]() ![]() ![]() This traipsing between credulous doctors (their notes are reproduced in the text) occurs beneath the lurking shadow of the American Gothic summoned up by Gregory: a place where fat fathers lounge in trailers, shouting for food that they may eat off their bloated bellies, while women who poison children coerce them into saying that they see Jesus, and men “do things” to children in bushes, while other adults “turn a blind eye.” He was getting a tube shoved into his urethra.” Nobody had to tell me what was happening. Later, her mother will elicit the same ordeal for Julie's brother: “I heard him scream and whimper clear down the hall into the waiting room. “My heart is pounding what's urethra? What is she doing down there? I open my mouth to ask, but a startled scream rips out instead.” We've got to get this plastic tube into the urethra `cause Mom says you can't go.' “The nurse at my feet says, `Now this might be a little stick, Julie. ![]()
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