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Celese embarrassedly pumped the
$2.47 worth of gas. She only had the
nozzle connected to her van for a
short time, and other customers
stared. At least, she imagined they
did. But, finally, she was on her way.
She looked at her watch and realized
that school had started over an hour
earlier. She didn’t have anything to
write a note with, so she told Violatte
to just tell the teacher that they had
problems.
“Tell her I will explain it all
tomorrow when I come to help, and
maybe she won’t mark you tardy
today.”
As often happens when a day
starts out wrong, the rest of the day
was chaotic as well. But, eventually,
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