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He was five now, older than just about all the kids at the day care But he was still wetting his bed

Two big girls had coirl away Justin had no one to take him away

But he knehere his house was, his real house with his old bed He never used to wet that bed But now he had a stupid bed on the floor, just a mattress, and other kids stepped all over it, so that was probably why he etting his bed again

His old house wasn’t very far away He’d gone there before Just to look at it and see if it was real Because soone to check and see if Mommy was there He hadn’t seen her And when he opened the door and went inside he had gotten too scared and he had co back to Mother Mary

But he was older now He’d only been four and a half then, and noas five Now he probably wouldn’t be scared

And he probably wouldn’t pee in his bed if he was at his real home

SIX

57 HOURS, 17 MINUTES

DAYLIGHT, BRIGHT AND clear

Sa There was the fish stand, already almost bare, with just two sly, no one had yet been brave enough to buy it

The fish stand was a long folding table dragged froray plastic kind that were used to bus dishes A droopy cardboard sign held in place by duct tape hung from the front of the table It read, "Quinn’s Seapreme Seafood" And below that, in smaller print, "An AlberCo Enterprise"

"What do you think that fish is?" Saed fish "I think that’s an example of Pesce inedibilis," she said

"Yeah?" Sahed theatrically "Pesce inedibilis? Inedible? Joke, duh Try to keep up, Sam, I made that really easy for you"