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Gertrude Rulin
Gertrude Rulin is recorded in 1 distinct story.
The Thorpes’ cleaner and Jimmy’s mother. She brings him to work while arranging childcare, tries to protect him during Reg’s attack, and is wounded.
Also recorded as Gertrude.
Stories and supporting passages
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
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The woman, Gertrude Rulin by name, laughed and said she’d done for people who were a whole lot stranger. Jane spent the first week of the Rulin woman’s employ pretty much the way she’d spent that first visit with the young people next door—waiting for some crazy outburst.
The Thorpes’ cleaner and Jimmy’s mother. She brings him to work while arranging childcare, tries to protect him during Reg’s attack, and is wounded.