Winn Dixie

"Did he get killed?" I asked Miss Franny. "Good grief," said Amanda. She rolled her eyes. "Now, Opal," Miss Franny said, "I wouldn't be standing in this room telling this story if he was killed. I wouldn't exist. No ma'am. He had to live. But he was a changed man. Yes ma'am. A changed man. He walked back home when the war was over. He walked from Virginia all the way back to Georgia. He didn't have a horse. Nobody had a horse except for the Yankees. He walked. And when he got home, there was no home there." "Where was it?" I asked her. I didn't care if Amanda thought I was stupid. I wanted to know. "Why," Miss Franny shouted so loud that Winn- Dixie and Amanda Wilkinson and me all jumped, "the Yankees burned it! Yes ma'am. Burned it to the ground." "What about his sisters?" Amanda asked. She

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