Winn Dixie

'To keep the ghosts away," Gloria said. "What ghosts?"

"The ghosts of all the things I done wrong." I looked at all the bottles on the tree. "You did that many things wrong?" I asked her.

"Mmmm-hmmm," said Gloria. "More than that." "But you're the nicest person I know," I told her.

"Don't mean I haven't done bad things," she said. "There's whiskey bottles on there," I told her. "And beer bottles."

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