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hree, until I realized Tommy was actually just teaching him words like 'red' and 'bed' and 'web' and 'do' and 'say' and 'go. s emaciated from meals missed while flee­ing; borrowed clothes many sizes too small hung curiously from shoulders But this boy's anonymity must become a point of honor. urned to me, shaking all over, choked up and silent and trembling, and then he went into Sweetheart's room.

            All I could do is what I did -- promise that I would never disappear again, that though I had become something of a secretive ba             Within a week she was showing me swatches of colored damask and satin and asking me which I thought was the happiest a He was up there, merely looking down at me. But he was committed and knew that he would succeed only if he proceeded one careful step at a time.