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Fireworks exploding in an over-stuffed garage caused a housefire one summer.

Soon after the fire, I saw a sad procession as I was driving: a boy pushing a lawnmower, his younger brother wearing a garden hose wrapped around his shoulders, little sister with a black garbage bag slung over her back, and baby sister carrying a 2 liter of pop and a doll.

They walked slowly in single file, and I wondered where they would go. Their home had burned, and the parents had burned a lot...