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"After we picked out our clothes, they putto flip, but she was actually enjoying it They didn’t really do much with her--just a little more color And that was all it took She was pretty I know it’s hard to believe, knowing her now But that day, she was like aher And when it was time for the actual shoe paraded out there and people applauded Mo, and it was real, you know?

"We didn’t get to keep the dresses or anything But I rereat I was When we got back to our house, Dad looked at us like ere aliens, but the cool thing is, he decided to play along Instead of getting all weird, he kept calling us his super roo so much And that was it The day ended I’m not sure Mom’s worn makeup since And it’s not like I turned out to be a supermodel But that day re, wasn’t it?"

"It sounds like it," I tell her

"I can’t believe I just told you that"

"Why?"

"Because I don’t know It just sounds so silly"

"No, it sounds like a good day"

"How about you?" she asks

"I was never in a h, as a htly on the shoulder "No Tell me about another day like this one"

I access Justin and find out hebefore that is fair game, because Rhiannon won’t have been there I could try to find one of Justin’s ive Rhiannon so of my own

"There was this one day when I was eleven" I try to remember the name of the boy whose body I was in, but it’s lost tohide-and-seek with my friends I mean, the brutal, tackle kind of hide-and-seek We were in the woods, and for some reason I decided that what I had to do was climb a tree I don’t think I’d ever climbed a tree before But I found one with so Up and up It was as natural as walking In my memory, that tree was hundreds of feet tall Thousands At so, but there weren’t any other trees around I was all byway froht The town below ical," I say "There’s no other word to describe it I could hear ame played out But I was in a co the world fro when it happens for the first time I’d never flown in a plane I’ So there I was, hovering above everything I knew I had otten there all on iven it to me Nobody had told me to do it I’d climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself That, I found, hat I needed"

Rhiannon leans into ," she whispers

"Yeah, it was"