Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"What must that have been like for her?"

"What?"

"When her husband's article came out."

"Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother?"

"Well. She and her family visited her very Italian parents, and her husband's very Italian parents, and all the Italian aunts and uncles and cousins, in Connecticut, that Easter weekend."

"So?"

"So we've already established that her father had no use for her, because she was a girl. And that she didn't like men very much. To say the least. And now here she is, almost twenty years deep into a totally normal marriage to a man she had told -- "

"If I have to marry a man -- "

"It might as well be you -- "

"Who she doesn't hate at all. Raising his two sons. In addition to the Kindergarten Association. And the Cub Scouts."

"Where her husband is literally Cubmaster!"

"When he's not at The Agency."

"Or the Unitarian Church."

"Or the Comedy Club"

"And then, because all that wasn't enough – "

"Of course he comes out with – "

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(In unison): "Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother!"

"Seems like a ...