rising-nine

Updated: May 10, 2025

I guess he thought she'd jump at him or something, for he had always been a mother's boy and minded everything she said, though he was twenty-eight years old and rising-nine but all she did was to draw in her breath sharp and sudden, so you could hear the whistle of it, and then two big tears rolled out under her specs. "Don't feel bad about it, Mommer," said Benny in a snuffly voice.

Lloyd Osbourne - Love, the Fiddler