Revenge_(7)
My family owned a grocery and hardware store in a small eastern Kentucky coal mining town in the 1960s. I worked in the store during my high school years, so I knew just about everybody in town. My family consisted of my father and mother, a sister, Julie who was two years older than I was, and a younger brother Sammy. Because I my speech sounded feminine, I was bullied by some of the men in town. Needless to say, it hurt when they called me queer because I certainly was not. I spent a lot of time trying to find a way to get revenge. One of the salesmen who visited our store heard the bullying from one of the guys and told me “you should fuck that guy’s wife—that would shut him up.” …