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“OUTSIDE IT’S CLOUDY AND cold. The sky’s still that weird silver-gray, the way it never got in Denver. I am fourteen today. When we left Denver I was almost completely flat. That’s not the case anymore. My clothes from last year are too tight. The pants are all too short. The T-shirts curve over my chest in a way that makes the guys at school look twice. When the corner guys hanging out say Hey Neckbone to me, their voices have something else to them. Sometimes they even whisper C’mon over here in a way that makes me walk faster past them.
The coconut cake is store-bought with nothing written on it. Fed money cake, Anna said when she opened the refrigerator and saw the cake there. Once Mama had been a great cook. Now she cooked like she couldn’t care less about the taste of anything. Fed money everything. The Feds send us a check every month—enough to pay rent and buy food and clothes until Daddy finds work. The money from our house is in the bank. Mama says when the time is right, we’...ll start looking for a place to buy.MoreLess
The coconut cake is store-bought with nothing written on it. Fed money cake, Anna said when she opened the refrigerator and saw the cake there. Once Mama had been a great cook. Now she cooked like she couldn’t care less about the taste of anything. Fed money everything. The Feds send us a check every month—enough to pay rent and buy food and clothes until Daddy finds work. The money from our house is in the bank. Mama says when the time is right, we’...ll start looking for a place to buy.MoreLess
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