It was one of those ghastly moments when you wish your life would end, just stop, then and there. From Mom’s room, I heard a man’s voice—muffled, but unmistakably Les’—and then I heard Morn call out, “Who’s there?” I couldn’t answer. She called, “Who’s there?” again, and I tiptoed toward the door. I drove to Daddy’s rooming house and waited in the car until I saw him walking toward me down the sidewalk. He recognized me and came immediately to the car window. There are some brownies in the breadbox,” she said. “you can have a couple before going to bed, if you like.”

Daddy nodded slowly, and bit his lip. “I never loved any woman, before or since, the way I love your mother.” No, not angry,” he said, shaking his head resignedly. “Sad, yes. Sad that it didn’t work out. She’s a wonderful woman. Those were the happiest years of my life. I hated to see them end. But your mother wasn’t happy with me. She wanted more out of life than I could give and she had more to give than I could take. I could see that. So when the time came, and I knew it was going to come, sooner or later, I just let it happen.”Bethie is a grownup,” Mom said, giving me a peculiar look. “Bethie, why don’t you have your lunch in the living room,” she went on. “Things are getting a little hectic here.” Obligingly, I went into the living room. I noticed that the cigar butt was gone. A few minutes later, I went into the kitchen to make another sandwich. I was ravenously hungry this morning. The kids were settling down for their nap in the nursery, while Mom was clearing up. And it was all so useless and foolish, because, underneath the mingled misery, shame, disgust, anger, and all the other mixed-up emotions I was going through, I still felt a glow of love for Les. Maybe he was immature —after all, he was only nineteen. Maybe he was weak, and foolish, and even lazy. There are worse flaws a man can have. And Les was my man, and I loved him. Ah, now, honey, don’t you get mad at me,” said Daddy, almost whining. “I never was much of a fighter I accepted what was going to happen. I let her do what she had to do. It’s better that way—we’re still friends.” Then he added slyly, “Even at my age, a man’s got to have a lady friend.” We decided against the pizza almost immediately. We drove, instead, to a quiet, high-class cafe down by the river, where they had tiny tables with softly glowing candles.

He had taken a job as a draughtsman in a firm of architects in Mercersberg, making good money for a summer job. After a week or two he told me, “College is a waste of time. It took me a year to find that out, and one week on this job. This is the best preparation for what I want to do.” Now you just listen, Miss Beth. You’re young, and you think you know enough about life to sit in judgment about your mother. Well, let me tell you, there isn’t anybody in this world that has a right to say what’s right or what’s wrong for somebody else. What’s right for you isn’t right for her. Every person is a special case. Just so long’s they don’t hurt anybody else, what a person does with their own life is their business.” Arguably one of the best Only Fans milfs, Cory Chase is also one of the kinkiest. Fans of online porn will instantly recognize the name, and now this amazingly hot and increasingly mature porn star is bringing her most hard core content to the world of Only Fans. That’s wonderful, Les,” I said. Mom was willing to pay him regular architect’s fees, plus expenses. The nursery school, apparently, had been doing very well indeed. We could certainly use the money, and even more important, I was happy that Les would be working at something instead of moping around the apartment while I worked. When the arrangement ended a few months later and my husband bought his own house, I missed those times at my mother's house dearly.It took another eight years before the next mummy film from Universal surfaced. The Mummy’s Hand (1940) was the first in a reimagined but decidedly dumbed-down franchise. Despite popular belief, Karloff actually only appears as the titular bandaged being during the memorably unnerving 10-minute opening of the original film: it was only in the follow-ups that the revived creature became the lumbering threat we know today. The idea of a mobile mummy would have been totally alien to the ancient Egyptians and goes against the entire concept of mummification, sought to preserve the dead for a still and peaceful afterlife.