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August, 1990
Alphonse--called Fonse by everybody but his wife--Turnipseed, dressed in a JC Penney suit that was green and too tight, stood directly behind his son, Motor, who had both of his elbows on the registration desk, one on either side of the form he was filling out. From time to time, he briefly touched the point of the ballpoint pen to the tip of his tongue as he wrote.Alphonse's wife, Earnestine, and her daughter, Earline, were wearing JC Penney "marked-down dress-ups"--red imitation-silk...
