For the rest of the school day, Margaret felt better than she had felt for a long time. She actually worked up the nerve to ask another girl in her class to play on the monkey bars—and she had accepted! With a full belly and a potential friend, she could believe things might be d...
This was not the first time in my life I didn’t know what to do or say, but for a while I was the only one who realized that when Kenneth and Helen left, I would be on my own in the house. It was only when their car was packed and they were about to lock up the house t...