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Patty had a plan. She was thrilled to have gotten her first invitation to a party with the popular kids in her class at Jackson Middle School, but there was no way on God’s green earth that her mother would allow her to go. It was not even worth asking. What Patty needed was a distraction, something to send her mother into a tizzy long enough for Patty to get away unnoticed.
Which is where her little brother Dwayne came in.
Dwayne, bless his heart, was not as clever as Patty—no one in the family was, to be sure—and she often used him for her own ends. He was sent to the store for candy they weren’t supposed to eat, cards they weren’t supposed to play, magazines they weren’t supposed to read. When the contraband was discovered (which it almost always was), it was Dwayne who suffer
