“Sometimes you knew the answers only you wouldn’t say? Is that the way it was?” I asked. “I don’t know when I knew and when I didn’t,” Dibs said, verbalizing the confusion that must often have been thrust at him. He lay down in the sand on his back and twisted around until he touched his toes to his lips. “See what I can do?” he said. “I can bend double and nobody ever taught me how.”
