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THE GIRL WHO WAS

once there was the boy . and the girl who lived down the
street . the boy liked the girl . the boy thought of her
often . sometimes the boy saw the girl walking home from
school . the boy always wanted to speak but was too shy

a couple months later . on a saturday . the boy walks his
bike from the garage to the sidewalk . as he readies to go
riding he notices a very large yellow truck in front of the
girls house . two men dressed in grey overalls carry a sofa
from the house to the truck . next the girls father pushes
to the truck a dolly loaded with three big card board boxes

the boy looks for a few minutes then returns the bike to
his home and comes back with a bag of fritos and a can
of orange soda . he sits on the lawn and watches the men
and the girls father take furniture and boxes to the truck

after a period of time the truck is filled . the men in
grey overalls get in it and drive up the street . as the
truck rumbles by the boy reads the hand written sign on its
door " john holmes and son " a telephone number is below

the boy stands and stretches . he sees the girls father
cross the street to his car . a blue oldsmobile station
wagon . next comes the girl and her mother who is carrying
a red cage with two small green parrots inside

the mother puts the bird cage in the back of the wagon
she and the girl get in the olds . the father starts it
pulls away from the curb . goes to the corner . makes a
u turn and slowly drives up the street . he stops in
front of their old house for a moment then continues on

as the station wagon passes the boy shyly waves