ck. The two boys were left alone with their mother and soon Ed was even deeper under his mother's terrible spell (Taylor). Edward was never really close to his father. He always drank and ended up verbally abusing them.
             Eddie looked up to his brother Henry and saw him as a hard worker and a man of strong character. After the death of their father in 1940, they too a series of odd jobs to help financially support the farm and their mother. Henry was worried about his unhealthy attachment to their mother. On several occasions Henry openly criticized their mother. On May 16 Eddie and Henry were fighting a brush fire that was burning out of control on their farm. During their struggle, night quickly approached and soon Eddie lost sight of his brother. When the fire was
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