Some Can See

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Sophia lifted the rock, hoping for a salamander. She kicked the black dirt crawling with ants and moved onto a downed tree branch. The previous summer she and her friend Ellen had found half a dozen salamanders at least. This summer Ellen didn’t want to play in the woods. She wanted to go into town with her mama and gaze in the store windows at the new dresses on display. Or she liked to stay home and practice French braiding her hair.

“We’re thirteen now,” Ellen had said to Sophia half a dozen times at least - as if that explained why she wanted to sew a new dress instead of swim in the pond.

Sophia yawned just thinking about it.

Sophia had asked her brother Grimmel to join her, but he preferred to play in the cow pasture with the neighbor boys. Plus, Mama had given him new chores since Daddy died and he hardly had time to play with his friends let alone his little sister. Sophia too had new chores. She mucked the stables and fed the chickens every morning.

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