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In memory of my grandmother Louise who carried her easel from Brittany to Maine and painted a beautiful life
Come away O human child To the waters and the wild William Butler Yeats
CHAPTER ONE Don’t you understand He needs this Amy But for the whole month Jonathan What else has he been doing with his summer so far School’s been out for a week and he does nothing but sit around A change like this will make all the difference I was lying in bed reading the latest Revengenators comic book on my tablet when I heard my parents start to argue about me again It was strange how they assumed I couldn’t hear them as if closing my bedroom door at night meant I had suddenly gone deaf Martin is fine said my mom My father snorted the same noise he made when 1
