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Show BITTER HOMECOMING Probably not many returning return-ing soldiers will find as unhappy unhap-py a situation at home as Bates McVayne did, but there is a lot of heartbreak ahead for many poor felloivs. His wife was wrong, of course, to live with another man while her husband hus-band was away fighting, but she is trying to make amends. It's his mother and sisters who are making a bad situation worse. They have told Bates that they will never speak to him again if he takes his wife back! There's a little daughter in the picture, too. Bates would like to have her, in any case. She was only a few days old when he left, and does not remember re-member her father, of course. Then there is the other man. He wants Bates to give Marylin Mary-lin a divorce, and to pay for it too! This maddening mess is a soldier's homecoming "present." "pres-ent." "I feel," Bates writes, "like I have no home, no family fam-ily and no friends." |