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Chapter 5

The Major had been Otter’s companion, what Grandpa Billy would have called his win-taywife, for years now. Nobody ever thought anything of it—except my ma. Her Christian Danish soul couldn’t abide the idea of men lying with men. Considered it shameful, not to mention sinful. Strange because she’d come to live in Billy’s house when she married Pa and had been happy. She’d loved Billy and looked on Otter with great fondness. Pa and us kids just accepted their relationship for what it was. Truth be told, I’d never given it much thought until Timo Bowers came into my darkened bedroom last night.