"My father looked exceedingly uncomfortable. 'No, he said. 'I tried - but she doesn't want to know."

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"She couldn't admit this though and, in a way, I liked this about Phoebe - that she tried to defend her family."

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"Another odd impression I got was that Mr. Winterbottom was playing the role of a Father, with a capital 'F'."

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"On the day that Phoebe and I met the potential lunatic and then went over

to Mary Lou's, a couple of other peculiar things happened."

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"The city of Madison _____ between two lakes, Lake Mendota and Lake

Monona, and dribbling out of these lakes are other smaller lakes."

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"He was staring at me with those round black eyes. 'I thought so. You ____ every time someone touches you."

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"He was one of those energetic teachers who loved his subject half to death and

leaped about the room ______...and patting people on the back."

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“Since my students were _____ after eating all of the cupcakes, I took them outside for an extra recess.”

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“Well I have more important things to worry about it, I can ____ you.”

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"In the end, I think I merely ran out of

steam."

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"The next day at school, I studied Mr. Birkway as he leaped and cavorted

about the classroom. If he was a murderer, he certainly was a lively one."

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"I picked up a flat stone and sailed it across the gorge where it hit the far

wall and plummeted down, down, careening off the jagged outcroppings..."

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"I lay down next to her, and Gramps tentatively sat down on the other side. 'Whoa,' he said. 'I do

believe this thing's alive."

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I watched a bird ______ from the tree and land on the front lawn.

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I ____ the last piece of cake so that my son could enjoy it.

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“The roller coaster felt like it was _____ around the curves, but I know that is what makes it exciting!” 

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"You could see people ____ nervously, waiting as tensely as if Mr. Birkway was

going to announce someone's execution."

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"You could see people poised nervously, waiting as tensely as if Mr. Birkway was

going to announce someone's execution."

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"The next day at school, I was relieved to see Phoebe. 'Where were you? I said. 'I phoned and phoned - I have something to tell you... "

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"I looked carefully at each of the boys. Alex was gazing nonchalantly at Mr. Birkway, Shigeru was asleep in the back row, others were doodling, and then I saw Ben."

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"But the other half of me was a quivering pile of jelly."

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"In English class, everyone badgered Mr. Birkway to finish reading the journal entry."

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As she stood there in the middle of the sidewalk, with her head tilted up at us, and that quizzical look on her face, she looked like a _____ child.

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"I don't suppose you would mind telling me exactly what was so all-fired important that you couldn't wait for someone with a _____ driver's license to bring you...?"

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He came to see the only ______ from the bus crash.

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On and on we go. We walk in everybody's moccasins, and we have ____ some interesting things that way.

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One day I ____ that our whole trip out to Lewiston had been a gift from Gram and Gramps to me. They were giving me a chance to walk in my mother's moccasins.

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