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There was a true carnival atmosphere A Ferris wheel doo-round, was bound to keep the kids happy all day Children’s music blared from the loudspeakers Clown doctors were set to wander around, entertaining the kids with jokes and balloon animals
Stalls with various carnival ga zoo was already popular It felt good looking out on it all, knowing that she had been part of it
Hailey spentout at one stall or another On her travels she bumped into a lot of old patients and she stopped to chat with the kids and their faain and catch up on what had happened after discharge
A lot of the artists they’d employed for the day Hailey had been done up to look like a cat, a stripy ht past her
At two o’clock, with three hours to go, her father sought her out ‘There you are, darling Beth said to look for the cat that looks like she’s sed the cream You’ve done a fabulous job,’ John Winters cohter carefully on her blackened nose
Hailey laughed ‘Well, I didn’t do it all by myself, Dad’
‘C’ht you wouldn’t want to miss it’
‘Miss ood cause? It’s going to be the highlight of my day’
The old adage that it wasn’t what you knew but who you knew certainly played out when it ca the Brisbane General’s eon who had separated three sets of conjoined twins, and the e Hailey had known people would pay a high price to see all or any of theree
A crowd had gathered and there was much exciteht yellow sun shirt, took the first turn He looked like a canary or, at the very least, a sitting duck
‘There she is, Daddy’
Hailey kneas Toh little voice even before she homed in on his location ‘Tom,’ she said, as the little boy, orchie in tow, launched his body at her legs rugby-tackle style She absorbed the i his hair
‘I told Daddy you’d be here’
She sain How on earth he could tell it was her when her own sister hadn’t recognised her, she didn’t know
‘What’s new, pussycat?’
The sun was behind Callu hiy deni his chest She’d never seen hily casual She’d seen him in jeans a few times but never in shorts that revealed the tanned ht brown hair