“And she'd make me play songs on the piano when she would sing to him.”

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Not with Colleen around.

My dad was long gone so every Christmas,

Colleen would bring her "friend" Mr. Schwarz over for dinner

And she'd make me play songs on the piano when she would sing to him.

My parents divorced when I was nine --

Every year the dreadful moment arrived

When I would catch Mr. Schwarz caressing my mother's bony thigh.

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