The Getting of Wisdom
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You are Laura Rambotham, twelve, finishing a fairy tale for the younger children in the grass on your last day at home. Your mother has sewn a school dress deliberately short, refusing to admit you have outgrown a child's hem, and your protest ends with a kicked-over washstand and a flooded floor. Ashamed, you cut off your favorite curl to bind an apology into a bouquet, an offering that lands harder than you meant it to. By dawn the dress is lengthened, the curl gone, and the coach waiting.
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