The Love of My Life T.C. Boyle
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Uploaded by claudiapog08 on Jul 12, 2011
A passage from the short story "The Love of My Life" by T. Coraghessan Boyle
That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby--was nobody's business but his and China's. That's what he'd told his attorney, Mrs. Teagues, and his mother and her boyfriend,and he'd told them over and over again: I didn't do anything wrong. Even if it was alive, and it was, he knew in his heart that it was, even before the state prosecutor represented evidence of blunt-force trauma and death by asphyxiation and exposure, it didn't matter, or shouldn't have mattered. There was no baby. There was nothing but a mistake, a mistake clothed in blood and mucus. When he really thought about it, thought it through on its merits and dissected all his mother's pathetic arguments about where he'd be today...
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I remember reading this story in 10th grade, it literally made me sick. So damn nauseating; the description of the birth, and the infanticide.
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