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- Third Place Prize!
- Just make Ma proud.....
- Permission to Play Piano!
- Sure why not?
- Please let me play Ma! I've worked so hard
- The Accident.
- "I forgot I was even playing in front of the packed Palace Theatre. I dropped right inside the music and didn't feel anything til after when the clapping started and that's when I noticed my hands hurting straight up to my shoulders" (Hesse 132.)
- Black Sunday.
- Cover your face Billie Jo, This is the worst I've ever seen
- "Anyway, this time I caught her in the slow stirring of biscuits, her mind on other things, maybe the baby growing inside of her, I don't know, but anyhow she was distracted enough, I was determined enough, and this time I got just what I wanted. Permission to Play at the Palace" (Hesse 12.)
- Escaping the Dust.
- "I pushed her to the ground, desperate to save her, desperate to save the baby, I tried, beating out the flames with my hands. I did the best I could. But it was no good. Ma got burned bad" (Hesse 60.)
- Out of the Dust
- I'm sorry daddy. Don't leave me.
- I promise to see a doctor. I love you Billie Jo
- "We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The sky turned from blue to black. night descended in an instant and the dust was on us" (Hesse 163.)
- Lets stop at that house up there for shelter!
- "I walk to where the train stops long enough for a long-legged girl to latch and as my heart races. I feel the earth tremble beneath me and then the sound of sharp knives, metal against metal, as the train pulls up to the station" (Hesse 197.)
- "My father is waiting at the station and I call him Daddy for the first time since Ma died, and we walk home, together, talking. I tell him about getting out of the dust and how I can't get out of something that's inside me" (Hesse 205.)
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