Winn Dixie

"Give me that," I said to Winn-Dixie. But he wouldn't give it up. I had to reach inside his mouth and pull it out. "You can't eat candy wrappers," I told him. The preacher cleared his throat. I thought he was going to say something important, maybe tell me another thing that he remembered about my mama; but what he said was, "Opal, I had a talk with Mrs. Dewberry the other day. She said that Stevie says that you called him a baldheaded baby ." "It's true," I said. "I did. But he calls Gloria Dump a witch all the time, and he calls Otis a bad man. And once he even said that his mama said I shouldn't spend all my time with old ladies. That's what he said."

" I think you should apologize ," said the preacher. “Me?" I said.

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