June 17: Elaine continues to skip around in her story about her uncle who faked his death without any background information. She glossed over such details about how a body was never found, just blood on a dock. That it might have been tailored to frame his then best friend. And that the DNA test had linked them to a girl who had been adopted as a baby and they now suspect was her uncle’s love child.
June 18: There’s another lice outbreak at the school. Every time we talk about it in the teacher lounge, we all suddenly get paranoid and itchy.
June 19: Nick always encouraged Addie to howl with the sirens that pass by our apartment. Now that we live in the city, they drive by more frequently. Addie always perks up when she hears the first inkling blocks away. Then she waits for one of us to howl first before she joins in.
June 20: Ana scored crates of free popcorn at the food bank. Unfortunately, they turned out to be child snack-sized. Every snack, it takes two microwaves and at least three hours to make enough to feed every student.
June 21: Jackson wanted to know how much longer it would take for our bus to arrive. I told him we wouldn’t have to wait much longer, it was only three minutes away. Jackson’s jaw dropped and he held his hands out about two feet apart as if he were showing off the size of a fish he caught over the weekend. “But a minute is like this long!” he shouted.
June 22: The lights constantly changed colors, making it even harder to pick our way through the mirror maze. The place makes everyone wear flimsy plastic gloves so that they don’t leave prints on the mirrors as they navigate their way to the exit. My girls managed to escape in about three minutes. Mr. Derek’s group abandoned him inside.
June 23: Today, Angelina informed me that her scooter can talk to her. They mostly have conversations about her scooter’s crush on George Washington.
much love,
hedgie
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