Longtime Maycomb native, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose has recently passed away. As it has been known, Mrs. Dubose has been sick for a long time due to her her severe morphine addiction. About a month before her passing, local lawyer Atticus Finch’s son Jem Finch was seen ruining Mrs/ Dubose’s flowers in her front yard, and every day after school had to go to her house with his younger sister Scout. From an insider is heard that Jem would read to her everyday right before she received her “medicine.” She was using Jem’s reading to help her get off her morphine addiction before she died by having him reading to her longer each day without his knowing. The children were unaware until after her passing that she had been an addict and that they had
