"I want you to leave for a while and pull yourself together, Henery!" she franticly yelled to her husband, as he was walking out the door. "You drove me to do it, you and your children, that is." he replied also using a hateful tone. "The only reason I married you in the first place was because....." Before he could get the last words out of his mouth, one of the children hit him over the head with a frying pan knocking him out instantly. "I couldn't have done it better if I had done it myself," The woman praisingly told her child. The woman had a feeling that she knew what her now unconscious husband was going to say. For the only reason that Henrey married Ellenore was because she didn't know his durranged past. See, along time a go Henery use to work at a casino in Las Vegas as the roulette dealer. When one day Ellenore came into the lounge to shoot a few craps when she turned her head and noticed the young man at the roulette wheel. She walked over to the game, and placed her bet on red twenty-eight. The nice young man blurted out to all who were playing the game, "Round and round and round she goes were she stops nobody knows." as the wheel slowed down, Ellenore covered her eyes, as not to see what number it landed on so that she wouldn't be disappointed if it was not her number. "RED TWENTY-EIGHT!" The young man yelled to the now formed crowd around the roulette wheel. The lady uncovered her eyes and in a surprising yet not so sure that he wasn't kidding scream, "I WON! I WON!! didn't I???" " Yes Lovely lady you are the winner of our roulette jack pot, You have just earn the sum of Two hundred and fifty million dollars!" The young man replied to the very happy lady. She was so over whellmed that she fainted in the young man`s arms. He picked her up and gently carried her into the lounge, and placed her on a couch. A few hours later she found herself in a silk night gown laying on a blue sofa in front of a fire place. "Where am I?" she thought to her self. She quickly sat up and found herself very dizzy. It felt to her that she had taken too many NY-QUIL liqui-caps, She also could,t remember a thing from the night before. She quickly arose and began to roam around the strange surroundings. She found a picture of the young man that she had seen at the casino the night before, sitting on a dresser in the neatly kept bed room. Then she found a photo next to his of her and a small child around the age of two ar three. "This is odd. I don't have any children!" she thought to her self. But the more she walked around the more photos she saw of her , him and the child. Then she saw another room full of little girl's belongings. She could hear a car door slam, She quickly ran back to the couch and pretended to be a sleep. The front door opened and shut. "Honey, We're home!" a man and a little girls voice echoed through the house. She sat up and looked puzzled at the two of them. "Did you have a nice nap," the man asked her. "I feel like I have been asleep for 20 years." she replied with a hesitating voice. She thought that the young man looked very different. For the young man had lost a lot of hair, and the young girl that she saw in the photo was now almost eleven. She didn't let on that she was lost in front of the child. When the two adult were alone she asked him "Who are you, and were am I ?" she asked with a disturbed and a puzzled look on her face. "You mean you don't know were you are? You don't know who I am either. Do you know who that little girl is?" he replied to her forgetful questions. "I think my name is Ellenore, and unless that I'm mistaken, you are ah... ahh.... a.. I think your name is Henery. But I look like I'm about 47 tears old, and I think you were a little younger than I remember. I don't get it. If you are Henery and I am Ellenore. Then were am I and yes, who is that little girl?" "Well, I thought that this day would come sooner than later. But yes, I am Henery, and you are Ellenore, and that little girl is our 11 year daughter, Hellen,you are at our house in the suburbs of the outskirts of Las Vegas, Nevada." "Okay, so if this isn't the nineteen fifties, and I don't live in Georgia, Then what is the date?" " It is July the tenth of nineteen hundred and seventy two. We have been married for the past twelve years. We have lived in the same house and until today I thought that every thing was all peachy keen." "So then why don't remember were I have been and why in the heck don't I remember growing old and having children. I really don't remember getting married." "Well actually, I don't remember getting married either, it only took about ten minutes.*" "I have one more question for you. Do I have a bump on my head? Was I in an accident? What the heck happened?" "I thought that you were only going to ask one question. But anyway to answer your questions. First what is the last thing you remember?" "Well, I remember walking into a casino, and then I saw you at the roulette wheel. I waked over to it and placed my bet. Then I remember winning, but after that, I don't remember any thing." "Well, after that you fainted into my arms. I picked you up, carried you into the lounge and layed you down. After I got off of work, I brought you home. Then after you didn't wake up for almost thirty hours, I took you to the hospital, The doctors told me that you had a severe head trauma and the result was amnesia. The doctors said that you might or might not regain your memory back. So I guess that you did." "Thank God that was all, I thought that I might have been drugged or something to that effect. Of course I know that it is silly to think that, but hey it could happen." But what Ellenore didn't know was that she was really being drugged by her so called husband. Also she didn't know that the night before she met him, he escaped from a mental hospital. Henery was not the type to tell everyone what he had planned for him and his family. He just kept to him self . He did not let on to Ellenore that he knew exactly what had happened to her that night when she was in the casino. So all that Ellenore thought that was wrong was that she had a big bump on her head, and that she lost her memory because of it. In the next ten years that followed, Ellenore started to except her new life as an old woman instead of a young lady in the prime of her life. Then one day Ellenore came across some papers in the attic about Henery. They were the papers from the state mental hospital. release on good behavior, they read. She didn't say any thing to him about it as soon as she saw the date on the papers. The paper said that he was released on July the 15 1950. And as she thought to herself the day she met him was July the 16 1950. She met him the day after he was released which coincidental was her birthday. When Henery came home from work that night shew asked him what the papers were about and he didn't say anything. Then that is when they had the argument.
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