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 "And
there I was only thirteen years old, and Ginger Starkey, he had
finished tenth grade and been out of school for three years -he
was probably twenty, even-"
"And you'd never been with a guy who drove his own pickup before,
and next thing you knew -"
She took the story back from me. "Next thing I knew. we was
already in the next county and I made him stop so's I could send
a postcard to my mother."
"And the postcard said-" That was Veronica asking. Veronica
always liked what that postcard said.
Sweet-Ho laughed. " 'Dear Mama, I have gone off to get married
and I forgot your molasses. By the time you get this my name will
be Sweet Hosanna Starkey.' "
"She forgave you, though," I said with satisfaction.
"She forgave me because I came home with a ginger-haired baby,"
Sweet-Ho said, "and my mama, she was a pushover for babies
of any kind and she'd never seen one with hair like that before."
She reached over and ran her fingers down through my hair. "It's
still just as pretty as your daddy's was, Rabble."
"This
is one of Lowry's best, glowing with natural humor even while dealing
with heavy problems." --PUBISHERS WEEKLY
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