It’s okay Madi. Unnamed secret ingredients. Unnamed cousins, wives and grandmothers. No last names for you and your dad. No explanation for your father having to work the summer in Venezuela. Why in the world would we expect you to explain your remarkable and unbelievable character transformation?
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Back-to-back Helen Kellers!
I wonder if any other quotable has gone two straight.
-- Scottie McW.
"I found a kind of… peace. I can't explain it! By the way, that old lady has some really neat incense. Could we stop for a burger?"
Madi, a dessert disaster is believing banana bread IS a dessert.
When Madi repeats all this drivel to her friends (including “I swam in a big pool”), they will instantly become former friends. After a week of Madi whining because she misses Mary, Saul, Greta, and that lady with the messy kitchen whose name she never learned, Lyle will remember an upcoming trip to Uruguay and drop Madi off at the Charterstone gate, promising to see her at Thanksgiving.
Judging by her conversational skills Madi has regressed to a four-year-old.
This was Mary's easiest meddle ever.
I thought at first that Madi hanging her head out of the open car window was something Greta taught her. Looking closer though, I now realize that it's because Lyle is still wearing the same shirt he was wearing three months ago.
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