She used to say, "I don't need make-up, I'm natural." She got a lot of tricks that way. Although she had been married and had three daughters, she had a black lesbian lover named Grumpy. They had met when Gloria was an attendant at the Central Islip State Hospital. Grumpy's brother, Percy, had landed her in there when she tried to stab him. Gloria and Grumpy fell in love and became roommate lesbian lovers and bred toy poodles. One was named Pavala, or Pavvy. Grumpy, who used to curl my hair over a hot stove with a curling iron, was always high on terpin hydrate, a 35 percent codeine cough syrup which was so strong that she had to sign for it at the pharmacy.
Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988, New York, 0-941423-14-x
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