LUCY BELLE
Aftah Ed leaves me. Yo’s in Atlanta.
SAM
An’ yo’ stick yere?
LUCY BELLE
I was ha’f sick—an’ did’n’ have no money. He—he had me so scar’t I was neah crazy.
SAM (in anguish)
Gawd—!
LUCY BELLE
Ha’f-out-a mah haid, honey—did’n’ know w’at I was doin’—