lay in the comfy bed and tried to understand what had just happened. I had never met anyone like her in my whole life and I couldn’t easily explain to myself how she made me feel. Mammy would have said that I was being fanciful and that she was just a person like the rest of us but she wasn’t. It was as if she had just been born, still all shiny and new, like nothing bad or unclean had touched her. She reminded me of someone but I couldn’t think who and then it came to me: Alice reminded me of Bridgy, she reminded me of a child.
