Chapter 3 – A Strange First Encounter
Chapter 3 – A Strange First EncounterI met Shirley Quails when I was 11 years old. My name is Elizabeth. My family and had I had just moved into a pretty house in the country near a little town called Brimley in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The salesman told Captain that a girl my age lived down the road. I waited for her to visit me, but she never did so a few days before school started, I rode my bike to her place. I pedaled against the wind and by the time I got to her house, I was angry.
Her mother was taking clothes off the line. She waved when she saw me and called a greeting. I got off my bicycle and walked over to the clothesline. Instead of shaking my hand or kissing my cheeks like some people do when they meet someone for the first time, she
