My Mother Stoned Eugene Platt

My Mother Stoned

Startled by my late-in-life DNA discovery, I ask myself: Did my doting mother make a mistake, deserve to be stoned by an enraged man I grew up thinking was my father?

Whether belle or jezebel, my mother cuddled me continually after she cuckolded the trusting man who would raise me from infancy, a good man who worked his ass off to provide for family.

So, who am I to say? It was for posterity what the Prophet said to the too-eager would-be stoners of that woman caught in the act, the unpardonable act of adultery. I only know I cannot throw the first stone—

and like my fellow Pharisees, I may just slip away…

Eugene Platt

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