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It’s that we ignore the ones who are.  \n—Andrea Gibson  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover Title Page Dedication Epigraph  \n1 2  \n3 4  \n5 6  \n7 8  \n9  \n10  \n11  \n12  \n13  \n14  \n15  \n16  \n17  \n18  \n20  \n21  \n22  \n23  \n24  \n25  \n26  \n27  \n28  \n29  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nAbout the Author Books by Elana K. Arnold Back Ad  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nFrom shortly before my sixth birthday until I was nearly eight years old, I did not speak. For over two years, not a single word.  \nIt began in kindergarten, on Halloween. I remember because there was a festival on the blacktop where we played at recess. I loved the blacktop. It was painted with a web of yellow lines—some curved, others straight—that indicated the boundaries of various games. Here was in, there was out. Here, safe. There, not safe. If you understood the language of these stripes and half-moons then you could play the games, when it was time to play.  \nBut when it wasn’t time to play, or when something else was happening, like the Halloween festival, the lines lost their meaning. They made no sense anymore, and that frightened me. That meaning could disappear even when the yellow patterns and lines did not.  \nDuring the festival, everyone ignored the lines. Booths for games were set up right on top of them. There was a station for cotton candy, the air around it a cloud of sweetness that smelled pink. The pink smell made me think of my mother, whom I called Gillian. A little quirk in our family of three—my mother, my grandmother, and myself—that I called the adults by their names rather than by kinship terms. Like cotton candy, Gillian always smelled sweet, and also pink was her favorite color.  \nI was dressed as a butterfly. My grandmother—Big Nora, we called her, to distinguish her from Little Nora, or just Nora, which was me—had made the wings for my costume out of two silk scarves, one red, one yellow. They were fastened with safety pins to the back of my favorite long-sleeved Tshirt—the one I wanted to wear every day because it was so soft—and with stretchy hair bands to my wrists. When I moved my arms, the scarves  \nfluttered just like wings.“As pretty as a butterfly and as busy as a bee,”Gillian had said that morning as I fluttered around the kitchen of our apartment, and she and Big Nora both smiled.  \nFrom the cotton candy booth, I could see the numbers drawn in a wide, imperfect circle beneath the basketball hoop. This was for a game they called Cakewalk. We were to line up, and music would be played—“The Monster Mash”—and we would move counterclockwise in a circle around the circuit of numbers. When the music cut off, we were all to stop right where we were, and then a number would be drawn, and the winner would get a cake.  \nI didn’t like “The Monster Mash” or the chalk numbers scrawled on the blacktop. I didn’t like the crowded booths or the big kids in their costumes. I did like my costume and the pink smell near the cotton candy. And I did want to win the cake.  \nWe moved in a circle—30, 29, 28—the chalk beginning to smudge as we went. The song was fast, and people were loud. A bigger kid behind me in a Snoopy costume stepped on the back of my shoe and I almost fell down.  \nWhen the music stopped, kids jostled and pushed to stand on a number. I was squarely atop the number ten—I remember that because when the volunteer mom felt around in a glass fishbowl and withdrew a scrap of paper, unfolded it, and called out a number, that was the number she called.  \nShe waved me over to a long table where cakes were displayed and told me to pick one. 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