Winn Dixie

"But she left me," I told him. "She left us," said the preacher softly. I could see him pulling his old turtle head back into his stupid turtle shell. "She packed her bags and left us, and she didn't leave one thing behind."

"Okay," I said. I got up off the couch. WinnDixie hopped off, too. "Thank you for telling me," I said. I went right back to my room and wrote down all ten things that the preacher had told me. I wrote

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