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It almost rained Saturday.The clouds hung low over the farm.The air felt thick.It smelled like rain.
In town,the sidewalks got damp, that was all.

And she knows how to come into a home
and not step on the toes of a ghost.

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.

I turn my back on him as he goes,
and settle myself in the parlor,
and touch Ma's piano.
My fingers leave sighs
in the dust.

By the summer I turned nine Daddy had given up about having a boy. He tried making me do.

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did