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Wilkinson had to feel sad about. She wasn't new to town. She had a mama and a daddy. I had seen her with them in church. 'There's a secret ingredient in there," Miss Franny said.

"I know it," I told her. " I can taste it. What is it?"

" Sorrow ," Miss Franny said. "Not everybody can taste it. Children, especially, seem to have a hard time knowing it's there."

"I taste it," I said. "Me, too," said Amanda.

"Well, then," Miss Franny said, "you've probably both had your share of sadness ."

"I had to move away from Watley and leave all my friends," I said. "That is one sadness I have had. And Dunlap and Stevie Dewberry are always picking on me. That's another sadness. And the biggest one, my biggest sadness, is that my mama 114