Winn Dixie

Daddy," I said. "Daddy, what if he got run over?"

"Opal," the preacher said. "We can't worry about what might have happened. All we can do is keep looking."

We walked and walked. And in my head , I started on a list of ten things that I knew about Winn-Dixie , things I could write on big old posters and put up around the neighborhood, things that would help people look for him. Number one was that he had a pathological fear of thunderstorms.

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