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ingAunt Rachel agreedblessing my heart as we smoothed chocolate
icing over the fourteen holes. Full of my new maturityI requesed
further that no happy birthday be sung at dinnerdespite our agree-
ment that my brother would have wanted things to go on as usual.
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behind my eyes againas it had not at its las frequent usage in our
houseafter Mother’s protraced dying in Dorset General. But I was
too busy being grave and brave to shed tears even whenfollowing a
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petite but which we all managed to put awayat the family’s behes I
solemnly opened my gifts: Aunt Rachel’s war bonda black and gold
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Eversharp mechanical pencil from Uncle Josh (I had wanted a penif
anything in that linebut no matter: an explorer could use a mechani-
cal penciltooto make notes and such)andfrom Dad and Joe Ju-
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