The Original Ginny Moon. Benjamin Ludwig
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Название: The Original Ginny Moon

Автор: Benjamin Ludwig

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература

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isbn: 9781474055499

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СКАЧАТЬ DECEMBER 24TH—CHRISTMAS EVE

       EXACTLY 6:16 IN THE MORNING, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25TH—CHRISTMAS DAY

       EXACTLY 4:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25TH—CHRISTMAS DAY

       EXACTLY 11:05 IN THE MORNING, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26TH

       EXACTLY 8:23 AT NIGHT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31ST—NEW YEAR’S EVE

       EXACTLY 7:07 AT NIGHT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5TH

       EXACTLY 11:33 IN THE MORNING, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7TH

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       EXACTLY 3:50, MONDAY, JANUARY 17TH

       EXACTLY 5:14 AT NIGHT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18TH

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       EXACTLY 3:31 IN THE AFTERNOON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH

       EXACTLY 9:32 IN THE MORNING, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20TH

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       EXACTLY 2:10 IN THE AFTERNOON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ST

       EXACTLY 2:58 IN THE AFTERNOON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ST

       EXACTLY 11:19 IN THE MORNING, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23RD

       EXACTLY 4:03, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23RD

       EXACTLY 10:47 IN THE MORNING, MONDAY, JANUARY 24TH

       EXACTLY 11:02 IN THE MORNING, MONDAY, JANUARY 24TH

       EXACTLY 7:02 IN THE MORNING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH

       EXACTLY 7:57 IN THE MORNING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH

       EXACTLY 11:28 IN THE MORNING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH

       EXACTLY 10:58 IN THE MORNING, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26TH

       EXACTLY 11:07, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26TH

       EXACTLY 4:35 IN THE AFTERNOON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27TH

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Copyright

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       6:54 AT NIGHT, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH

      The plastic electronic baby won’t stop crying.

      My Forever Parents said it’s supposed to be like a real baby but it isn’t. I can’t make it happy. Even when I rock it. Even when I change its diaper and give it a bottle. When I say ush, ush, ush and let it suck on my finger it just looks dumb and screams and screams and screams.

      I hold it close one more time and say, Nice and gentle, Nice and gentle, in my brain. Then I try all the things that Gloria used to do whenever I went ape-shit. After that I put my hand behind its head and move up and down on my toes. “All better. All better,” I say. From high to low like a song. Then, “So sorry.”

      But still it won’t stop.

      I put it down on my bed and when the crying gets louder I start looking for my Baby Doll. The real one. Even though I know it isn’t here. I left it back in Gloria’s apartment but crying babies make me really, really anxious so I have to look. It’s like a rule inside my brain. I look in my drawers. I look in the closet. I look in all the places a Baby Doll might be.

      Even in the suitcase. The suitcase is big and black and shaped like a box. I pull it out from under my bed. The zipper goes all the way around. But my Baby Doll isn’t inside.

      I take a deep breath. I have to make the crying stop. If I put it in the suitcase and put enough blankets and stuffed animals around it and push it back under the bed then maybe I won’t hear it anymore. It will be like I put the noise away inside my brain.

      Because the brain is in the head. It is a dark, dark place where no one can see a thing except me.

      So that’s what I do. СКАЧАТЬ