Property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced-when they still imagine that children and Ruth's mother or father stayed when they weren't staying with Ruth. Her parents spent alternate nights in the family house with Ruth there was a rental house nearby, where It was not as simple a matter as her parents having separate bedrooms that summer they had separate houses, although Ruth never saw the other house. When she first heard her mother making love, Ruth thought that her mother was throwing up. Ruth had recently been ill with a stomach flu It was a totally unfamiliar sound to her. One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking-it was coming from her parents' bedroom.
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