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Show Inside Out, 69 "I showed it to you already, remember?" Martina pulled up her pant-leg to reveal a small tattoo. Terra craned her head to see what it was. "A penguin?" she asked. "Yeah! I love penguins," Martina said. "Your mom is amazing," Leah said. Terra thought about her own mom, and what she would say if she ever came home with a tattoo. If she noticed. She was always so tired after work, babbling on about everything but not noticing anything. Did she talk so that she wouldn't have to feel? Terra's birthday was the day after the funeral. Everyone forgot about it until the evening, when Mom had come into her room and given her a beautiful old shawl. "I'm sorry about your birthday," she had said. "I have been planning on giving you this, but I had hoped it would be a happier day. You deserve a cake, and a party. But this is what I have. It was my grandmother's, and her grandmother's before her. I love you." And then she had turned and left the room, as if being with Terra grated her raw. What was going on inside Mom? Notebook for Or. Scofield Sad things: 1. My mom. 2. My dad. 3. There's a really fat girl who sits alone at lunch. She doesn 't look like she ever washes her hair. I keep trying to imagine what her family is like. Ooes she have to share the bathroom with a huge family, so she doesn't |