Keeper of the Night

It’s a Girl
On the way home from school, Auntie told us that Ana Cruz gave
birth to a girl late this morning. She had a long, hard delivery. That’s
why Auntie didn’t make our dinner this afternoon. She was home,
taking a nap.
John Wayne wanted his sister to name the baby Miss Kitty, after
the redheaded lady who owns the saloon on the Gunsmoke reruns.
Ana named the baby Carmella.
I wonder if Carmella will like to dance. And I wonder if one day it
will bother her that her father isn’t married to her mother.