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close, real quiet, and don’t startle them. We tiptoe down the<br />
rows, I’ve got my bucket ready, then Bitsy giggles and we shush<br />
her but too late, and a cantaloupe springs up in the air. Marcy<br />
can’t get it, but she trips in the dirt and another melon flies off<br />
and I chase it with my bucket, but it’s too far, and of course I fall<br />
down too, but then I see cantaloupes flying everywhere,<br />
springing out of the heart-shaped leaves, and we’re all chasing<br />
them and I get one in my bucket, look over at Mom and wave.<br />
But she doesn’t see me, leaning against the car and smoking a<br />
cigarette, looking off at something else.<br />
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