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Show An Excerpt from Adeline Street I told them we were too young to babysit. But who listens to kids? "If anything happens," I said, "if we're killed or mangled or sucked dry by a vampire..." Mama rolled her eyes at the ceiling. "...or our throats are ripped out by a werewolf, just remember- I told you so." "Take your feet off my new sofa," Mama said and she clicked into the kitchen to see if the oven was off. Mama is a worry wart about things like turning off the oven or the lights or the water or the toaster. Last summer we drove up to Panama City to visit Aunt Pearl and she about worried us to death. She thought she left the water running outside and then she was sure that she left the coffe pot turned on and the back door unlocked. If she told us one time she told us five hundred times. After awhile Daddy finally said, "Please Dinge," he called her Dingy as a nickname and then he nicknamed the nickname. "Please, Dinge, don't harp on that anymore." But of course she did. The whole 2?i miles up there and the whole 271 miles back. "Papa will be here before seven tonight to check on you three and Linda wants Jeffrey in bed by eight thirty." She swatted me with a pot holder and said again, "I told you to take your feet off my new sofa." |