Saturday Evening Post, March 1st, 2008
The night that Dutch DeHoke came to the Renn house, Aunt Jennie filled a wooden tub with warm water and gave Dutch a bath. The unfamiliarity of the whole business--mellow lamplight, ministering hands, a smell of bacon and ginger cake in the room instead of nauseating odors, the shock of his father's mutilation and death--all these factors must have confused the quivering 13-year-old mind of Dutch DeHoke and tortured him in ways he could not express. He had been tortured before. I remember how we used to drive past the DeHoke place and shudder. My father would shake his head; we children woul...
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