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CHAPTER 9 - Over Burma

Summary

Wally was officially listed as missing. Olive and Candy were optimistic, but privately, Ray and Homer agreed that there wasn’t much hope. Homer wrote to Larch and asked him how he should behave with Candy. Homer wanted Candy ideally, meaning he wanted her to choose him over Wally or have Wally’s blessing. With Wally missing and possibly dead, neither was possible. Larch told Homer to take whatever Candy had to give and to be of use to her.

Candy and Homer started working the night shift at the hospital. The moans and cries of the sleeping children reminded Homer of St. Cloud’s, and Candy was drawn to the dark, black curtains. Homer, who had spent years wondering about his mother, was better at accepting Wally’s undefined status. Homer and Candy had taken to meeting in the cider house. Candy had sat too many times on the docks with Wally, which brought back too many memories.

Three of Wally’s crew found their way to a base in China and were flown back to India, but none of them knew what happened to Wally.

Dr. Larch, under the spell of ether, wrote, as he had done many times before, to President and Mrs. Roosevelt asking them to give people the ability to control their families and the right to an abortion. He began to rant, and Nurse Edna had to come into the dispensary to calm him.

Olive sat in Wally’s room in the dark so that Homer wouldn’t see her sitting there. She knew Candy and Homer were at the.......

Notes

As many people do in times of need, Candy and Homer found comfort from the people closest to them. Wally’s disappearance and the uncertainty as to whether he was alive draw Homer and Candy closer together. Finally, they give into their feelings and make love. But, the intimacy of the act causes Homer to forget to protect himself and Candy from the most ironic mistake, an unwanted pregnancy. Here, again Candy’s response is to wait and see. She refuses to make a decision; she refuses to make a choice when.........

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