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<<>>Summer of 1781<<>> Sweet, naïve—and psychic—pre-adolescent Jenny has just been adopted into a wonderful, yet different family. She knows Mommy and Grannie are from someplace where carriages fly in the air and books have moving pictures, but she doesn’t care. Her new family tries to protect her from her past. However, no amount of love can prevent the problems the chatty young girl ‘sees.’ But she won't stop trying.
Excerpt:
Why did they lie to me?
(A mother daughter talk begins...)
“So smart people lie, too?”
“Jenny, too many people lie. There have been times I’ve not told people things that I thought
they didn’t need to know, but I promise you, I have always tried to tell the
truth.” Uncertainty suddenly kicked in. “You haven’t been lying, have you?”
“No. My brothers lied to me. I didn’t even know what lying was for
a long time. Sometimes they’d tell me one thing, like the sun always came up in
the east because that’s where the sun birds stayed in the mornings and it was
their job to carry the sun across the sky. Other times, they said it was because
the sun was a great big candle and it floated from one side of the mountains to
the other and then big giants blew it out for the night. They never told me how
it got back again, though, or what sun birds looked like, or where the giants
slept.”
Jenny’s frown was back. “But when they lied to me, they made me
feel like there was something wrong with me because I was a girl. They said I
was born a boy, but that part got chopped off because I wasn’t smart enough.
That’s why I had girl stuff, because my boy stuff got chopped off. Well, they
called what you pee with stuff, but
still, it’s okay not to have a penis,
isn’t it?”
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