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Love Medicine | Essential Passages by Character: June Kashpaw

Essential Passage 1: Chapter 4, “The Beads”

I didn’t want June Morrissey when they first brought her to my house. But I ended up keeping her the way I would later end up keeping her son, Lipsha, when they brought him up the steps. I didn’t want her because I had so many mouths I couldn’t feed. I didn’t want her because I had to pile the children in a cot at night. One of the babies slept in a drawer to the dresser. I didn’t want June. Sometimes we had nothing to eat but grease on bread. But then the two drunk ones told me how the girl...

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