The Animal Girl (2007)
“She made the few children in attendance—only there because the counselor from the school district had advised it—play patty-cake with her on the couch while the adults lined up in front of the large, glossy black coffin. Everybody knew that coffin had cost a lot more than the Morris family could afford. And because a funeral home was too expensive and Bethel Mount Chapel, the church where the Morrises and my family and every other family at the funeral went, was no more than a room with gray me...tal chairs, the Morrises had moved their TV out of the way and put the casket, with its upper lid open to the dead woman, in their living room. Everybody on the front porch and back patio was whispering about the cost of the coffin, not to mention the reconstructive work done on the old woman. The coffin was polished metal and wood with what Larry Truman, a carpenter in Wilford, knew was cherry trim. “Precious,” one woman said about the interior fabric and cushions. People seemed to agree that the expense must have nearly destroyed the Morrises and would not have been necessary had Holly’s grandmother died in a more peaceful way.MoreLess
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