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It took three hours for the police to determine her son’s real name–Ramon Pumphrey–to locate his address, and to find a neighbor willing to tell them if he had a mother
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  the king of torts | Автор: admin | 19-08-2010, 08:56
It took three hours for the police to determine her son’s real name–Ramon Pumphrey–to locate his address, and to find a neighbor willing to tell them if he had a mother.


Adelfa Pumphrey was sitting behind a desk just inside the basement entrance, supposedly watching a bank of monitors. She was a large thick woman in a tight khaki uniform, a gun on her waist, a look of complete disinterest on her face. The cops who approached her had done so a hundred times. They broke the news, then found her supervisor.


In a city where young people killed each other every day, the slaughter had thickened skins and hardened hearts, and every mother knew many others who’d lost their children. Each loss brought death a step closer, and every mother knew that any day could be the last. The mothers had watched the others survive the horror. As Adelfa Pumphrey sat at her desk with her face in her hands, she thought of her son and his lifeless body lying somewhere in the city at that moment, being inspected by strangers.


She swore revenge on whoever killed him.


She cursed his father for abandoning the child.


She cried for her baby.


And she knew she would survive. Somehow, she would survive.


Adelfa went to court to watch the arraignment. The police told her the punk who’d killed her son was scheduled to make his first appearance, a quick and routine matter in which he would plead not guilty and ask for a lawyer. She was in the back row with her brother on one side and a neighbor on the other, her eyes leaking tears into a damp handkerchief.

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