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I Didn't Plan On Getting Old With You
My sister was eight and I was six, in a house with five children, two parents, three dogs, chickens, a duck and rabbits, on an ordinary residential street. It was not a farm. It was a zoo with a mortgage.
She went through that house looking for anywhere quiet and found a storage space at the back of our brother’s closet. She climbed in and stacked boxes into a wall so nobody could see her.
Nobody in that house ever found it. Except me. And did I leave her alone? I stole food out of the kitchen and moved in.
She had filled it with books. That is where she taught me to read.
Sixty years later…
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