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  • This is a kooky story full of death, incest and various other family dysfunction. Frances is a certifiable story teller haunted by the accidental death of baby Ambrose. Mercedes is a martyr trying to hold the family together. James was never the same after the death of his first born daughter Kather ... Continue

    This is a kooky story full of death, incest and various other family dysfunction. Frances is a certifiable story teller haunted by the accidental death of baby Ambrose. Mercedes is a martyr trying to hold the family together. James was never the same after the death of his first born daughter Katherine.

    

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