ABSTRACT
RUBY. 1knew for sure the day before Al Janney died. Aunt Madge said so. 1 wanted to ask her about it, but didn't. We sat in her little back room by the window, the table full of brasses that 1 dulled and she polished, and after a while of me thinking how 1 was going to tell her, she said, 'Does your mother know?' and 1 said 'Does my mother know what?' and she said 'Getting yourself pregnant' and 1 said, 'Who says 1 am?' and she said 'Aren't you?'
