Miss Freeland said our grade topped the entire state of Oklahoma on the state tests again, twenty-four points higher than the state average. Wish I could run home and tell Ma and see her nod
and hear her say, "I knew you could." It would be enough. January 1935 - P104
Being there without Ma,
without the baby,
wouldn’t have been so bad,
if I’d just remembered the cranberry sauce.
My father loved Ma’s special cranberry sauce.
But she never showed me how to make it.
January 1935 - P105
I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything. It strokes the roof, streaking the dusty tin, ponging, a concert of rain notes, spilling from gutters, gushing through gullies, soaking into the thirsty earth outside. - P109
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