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There was something earnest in the way she put stylus to paper, like a littlie learning how to read.

Tally remembered growing up surrounded by Sol’s woodwork, abstract shapes fashioned from fallen branches she would collect from parks as a littlie.

A clean start But Tally had ruined Peris’s starting over—showing up like some pesky littlie who’s not wanted, and leaving him with the bad taste of ugly in his mouth, not to mention covered with mud.

Shay started to crawl, the board bouncing along behind her like a littlie’s balloon.

Twelve was definitely the turning point, when you changed from a cute littlie into an oversize, undereducated ugly.