A Summer to Die

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Lois Lowry. A Summer to Die

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Strange, how the age of a house makes a difference. That shouldn’t surprise me, because certainly the age of a person makes a big difference, like with Molly and me. Molly is fifteen, which means that she puts on eyeshadow when Mum doesn’t catch her at it, and she spends hours in front of the mirror arranging her hair different ways; she stands sideways there, too, to see what her figure looks like, and she talks on the phone every evening to friends, mostly about boys. It took her about two days to make friends at the new school, two days after that to have boyfriends, and the next week she was chosen as a substitute cheerleader.

Me, I’m only two years younger, and that seems to make such a difference, though I haven’t figured out why. It’s not only physical, although that’s part of it. If I stand sideways in front of a mirror – which I don’t bother doing – I might as well be standing backwards, for all the difference it makes. And I couldn’t begin to put on eyeshadow even if I wanted to, because I can’t see without my glasses. Those are the physical things; the real difference seems to be that I don’t care about those things. Will I, two years from now? Or do I care now, and pretend I don’t, even to myself? I can’t figure it out.

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