 He wants you home. No. He's your daddy, Ruby. No. He's got rights to claim you. He'll destroy it, Aunt Lois. All over again. I was barely getting started in Kokomo. I had my laboratory. I was doing my chores all the same. I swear I was. But he would get mean drunk. Worse than when my mama was alive. And you know how he used to do her. You saw her face when we came here. You were too young then to remember that. When she got sick, it stopped for a while. But after she died...