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Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused." And changed us all, " Petra said softly.Blue Balliett
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What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three.Blue Balliett