Chapter 74 Leaving Rio Hondo For Ohio

• I had been at the train station with mother for God-knows-when, daring to convince her, I was going to return hale and hearty and I wasn’t going forever. Although the news making the round was that Rio Hondo girls who made it to Ohio ended up forgetting home, after they got affluence and power through their rich husbands. But here I was convincing mother I wasn’t going to forget her. And besides, we had reached agreement about my traveling to Ohio.
• She had agreed the other night about my traveling to Ohio to hustle for the half a million dollar bill I would refund the Fanny’s.
• Mother would not have agreed to my intention if not for the famine that befell Rio Hondo of recent. It was indeed a period of peril and massive ruin across the food bank of Rio Hondo. The last time such a famine was recorded was decades ago, when more than a handful of farmers lost their crops to locusts and thereafter stealing of farm produce from successful, privileged farmers was on the increase; I could recall we lost our sprouting garden after five successful plantings.