Papaw cheated on Bonnie with her best friend - Mamaw. Mamaw was thirteen and Papaw sixteen, but the affair produced a pregnancy. And that pregnancy added a number of pressures that made right now (italicized in the original) the time to leave Jackson: my intimidating, grizzled war-veteran great-grandfather; the Blanton Brothers, who had already earned a reputation for defending Mamaw's honor; and an interconnected group of gun-toting hillbillies who immediately knew all about Bonnie Blanton's pregnancy.
(J.D. Vance, 'Hillbilly Elegy')
Please tell me what's meant by made right now the time to leave Jackson. Thanks for your help in advance.
(J.D. Vance, 'Hillbilly Elegy')
Please tell me what's meant by made right now the time to leave Jackson. Thanks for your help in advance.
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