Amalia's Story, Chapter Seventy-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"I Wanted To Know The Exact Dimension Of Hell"
= Part One: I Don’t Even Understand That Question

"We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me Mom and Daddy"

"We're A Happy Family"
Ramones, 1977

So, look. Velveteen tuned back in. She thought she heard her father's voice off in the distance. " . . . I dropped the baby! She was hysterical."

Her mind snapped back to Resort Area in the 1960s. Not the fun, laid back place of Plague Year 1982, but rather the very rural, very out of the way peninsula jutting out into the Boochlantic with a seasonal economy, mostly fishing.

VELVETEEN: A lot of fish.

ALPHA PRIME: Velveteen had always thought her father was the first social worker in Resort Area.

VELVETEEN: However, this, like literally everything else in the whole entire world, was not completely true!

ALPHA PRIME: Behind his noble façade, he and her mother were, she would much, much later come to realze . . .

VELVETEEN AND ALPHA PRIME (Simultaneously): Actual crypto-communists!

ALPHA PRIME: Like actual communists from the actual Cold War Era of the actual 1950s and early 1960s?

VELVETEEN: I know, right?

ALPHA PRIME: And he actually was ...