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We were at it for a while, and Erin enjoyed using the tiny, safe scissors to cut up pieces of paper. It was frustrating at first, but we found a rhythm, and it all worked out. I had promised him we would try out our sailboat on the water, so I added wax and bond glue to the paper to buy the boat a little more time before it finally got wet and sank in the bathtub.
Ivory returned around eleven at night. She looked exhausted, while Maya seemed elated. I was in the living room when they walked in. My mother was also there, but we weren’t really on speaking terms.
She had messed things up badly, and there wasn’t much we could do about it. She brought David upon us, and if he was indeed part of the people who orchestrated this entire thing, as Ivory suspected, then my mother had unwitt
