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your parachute. You won't suffer the sort of
disappointments I suffered," she pledged.
Even more anxious, I squeezed my arms around
myself. When I was younger, I would pretend my
arms were my mother's arms, holding me. Iwould
close my eyes and imagine the scent of her hair,
the softness other face, the warmth of her lips on
my forehead. Would Celine ever hold me like
that? Or would her being in a wheelchair make
that too difficult to do?
I gazed out the window at the scenery that
flowed by. It was as if the whole world had
become liquid and ran past us in a stream of trees,
houses, fields, and even people. Few took any
special notice of us even though I felt so special.
They should all be cheering as we go by. I'm not
an orphan anymore.
"Looks like some rain ahead," Sanford pre
dicted and nodded at a ridge of dark clouds
creeping toward us from the horizon.
"Oh phooey," Celine declared. "I want the sun
to shine all day today."
Sanford smiled and I could feel the tension ease
out of him.
"I'll see what I can do," he said. The way he
looked at her, doted on her, I had no doubt that if
h® could, he would shape theweather and the
*orld to please her. There was love here, I
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thought, some sort of love. I only hoped it was t
right sort.

When I finally set my eyes on their house;
thought I had fallen into a storybook. N00
really lived in such a house, I thought, even as i
went up the long circular driveway with perfeo
trimmed hedges on both sides. Evenly spac
apart were charcoal gray lampposts, (he bul
encased in shiny brass fixtures. Celine hadn't be
exaggerating. They did have more lawn than t
orphanage. There were large sprawling red ma|
trees with leaves that looked like dark rubies, ai
a pair of enormous weeping willow trees, the ti
of the branches touching the ground to form
cave of shadows. I could just make out the sha
of two benches and a small fountain surround!
by the darkness. Squirrels scurried around t;
fountain and over the benches, up trees a
through the grass with a nervous, happy energ
saw a rabbit pop out from behind the trees. It