She started to talk about things I didn’t even know she realized. “Boy, you must think I’m stupid. She was losing all that weight over the summer, wouldn’t eat nothing, coverin’ up like it was snowing outside. She stopped taking care of herself. And even when that stopped, she developed this habit of washing herself like she just couldn’t get clean enough. All that crying she was doing outta the blue. You don’t think I had my suspicions then? But when all her issues disappeared once I put her in camp, I wrote it off, thinkin’ maybe she was just sad about her mama.” There was a minute of quiet.
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