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“We watched the children playing, and the people walking past, and we heard their voices and they were all strangers, with their wide staring eyes and their evil open mouths” (205).

“I went down to the creek and buried Uncle Julian’s initialed gold pencil by the water, so the creek would always speak his name” (201).

“I was troubled to think that Uncle Julian might vanish altogether, with his papers in a box and his chair on the barricade and his toothbrush thrown away and even the smell of Uncle Julian gone from his room, but when the ground was soft Constance planted a yellow rosebush at Uncle Julian’s spot on the lawn…” (201).

“Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life” (193).

“…perhaps there would never be noise in the world again” (190).

“Certainly Uncle Julian buried in flowers, swarmed over by flowers, would not resemble the Uncle Julian we had seen every day” (189).

Marricat & neurodivergence - always the literal meaning

“…looking at one another; now, I thought, now we will know how safe we are” (187).

“It was good to run, and good to come back again to our house and see the kitchen door standing open and the warm light inside” (186).