Winn Dixie

"Yes," he said. "You. You tell Stevie you're sorry if you said anything that hurt his feelings. I'm sure he just wants to be your friend ." "I don't think so," I told him. "I don't think he wants to be my friend." "Some people have a strange way of going about making friends," he said. "You apologize." "Yes sir," I said. Then I remembered Carson. Daddy," I said, " do you know anything about Amanda Wilkinson? "

"What kind of thing?" "Do you know something about her and somebody named Carson?"

" Carson was her brother. He drowned last year ." "He's dead?" "Yes," said the preacher. "His family is still suffering a great deal." "How old was he?"

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