Sowerbutt's Emotions

At the height of her outbursts, Polly often accused Sowerbutt of being a cold fish. "You don't care about me, you bastard. You don't have any emotions." His time in the Spanish war, working for Franco's Nationalists, had taught him that emotions were an expensive commodity.
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