“X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch.”

— Richard Matheson

Born of Man and Woman (1950)
Context: X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch.

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American fiction writer 1926–2013

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