Mellie

“Isn't their daughter named Melanie?” “Mellie, for short,” Ken confirmed.

“When I married him he was forty,” said Mellie, “and he owned a sleeping bag, a rifle, and a suitcase with a change of clothes.”

I met Melinda, Mellie, while we were both attending Sonoma State University.

After dinner she went directly to Melissa. “Mellie,” she said, “do you know, I've good reason for thinking this woman you've got is no better than she ought to be. Think of that, and you sick, and Abraham exposed to temptation.”