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Midsummer's Day. The longest day of the year. The day when daylight banishes the night, before the slow tide of the year turns again toward winter.
Out in the blazing sunlight of this summer's day is a ten-year old girl in an abrasively orange t-shirt and frayed blue-jeans. Today is her birthday.
Rae sits with her legs crossed, a tiny white pebble from the lake shore held in her hands. Only the pebble is currently a handful of sunflower seeds. The girl closes her hands around the seeds, and concentrates. When she opens her hands again, the seeds have been replaced by a different color lake pebble than the first. Her hands close again, and open. The new pebble has been replaced by an acorn. Close, open. The acorn has turned into a small tomato, a bright and sudden red against her hand.
Out in the blazing sunlight of this summer's day is a ten-year old girl in an abrasively orange t-shirt and frayed blue-jeans. Today is her birthday.
Rae sits with her legs crossed, a tiny white pebble from the lake shore held in her hands. Only the pebble is currently a handful of sunflower seeds. The girl closes her hands around the seeds, and concentrates. When she opens her hands again, the seeds have been replaced by a different color lake pebble than the first. Her hands close again, and open. The new pebble has been replaced by an acorn. Close, open. The acorn has turned into a small tomato, a bright and sudden red against her hand.