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Dialogue Essays: Observation In Small Town

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It’s almost never that Beau acts interested in the actual needs of Bubba. It’s a constant challenge to get him to participate. Most days he leaves it all up to me. I try to not be overcome by anger, but who doesn’t love their own child? If I’m going help this guy, I need to know him, and not some fake attempt to push everyone away. Its late afternoon. Bubba is napping. Crashing onto the couch beside Beau, I say, “Tell me about her.” His gaze only slides briefly from the television, before returning. I add, “I’m not going to give up. I want to know.” “Why?” I intently watch his side profile. Pulling my legs up, knees to chest, I tell him, “I need to know. Otherwise…I’m going to leave and you’ll be stuck figuring it out for yourself. Is that what you want?” His gaze remains cast down at his sketch pad, but I can see the threat is penetrating. “Because I will do it,” I continue. “You asked for my help, but you refuse to let me help you.” “You’re staying for the necklace,” he points out dryly, never once looking up. I watch his hands turning pages. Hands of an artist. “We both know that’s not true. I stayed because I wanted to. If I didn’t want to be here, then I wouldn’t be here. Just like, you wouldn’t have asked me to stay if you …show more content…

“Instead my mother stuck around, putting up with my father’s cruel shit, not caring what her staying cost her children. My mother is what you would call, blind to any of my father’s actions. He cheats right under her nose and she doesn’t see it. Treats her like a subordinate in every way imaginable, and she tolerates it. Beats the shit out of her whenever he’s drunk off his ass and yet, the man hung the moon as far as my mother is concerned. I think some women just need a man around.” He laughs bitterly, hooking an arm behind his head. “I guess you could say the Flynn’s are co-dependent. My father needs his alcohol. My mother needs the alcoholic. A match made in

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