She wanted to go up to each one of them and tell them they were wonderful. And plant a dozen kisses on their faces. She wished she could give them each a portmanteau with an embroidered green rose on it filled with money and tell them all their dreams could come true. She wanted to babysit their children so they could go dancing all night. She wanted to put them on a train and tell them to see more than this mile of rotten houses they had been born into. She wanted to sit next to them on a beach while their hair dried, and feed them cake and tell them they were beautiful even if nobody else
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