Beau entered the community center expecting chaos. What she found was everything running in an orderly fashion under Darrell’s command. Darrell stood calmly at the center, fielding questions, directing people, shooing Mrs. Paulson, with her squirming baby in her arms, back into a comfortable chair.
Flora and Faun let go of their mother’s hand and raced around the gym oohing and ahhing. Beau stood still and did the same. A different culture was represented in every corner of the center’s gym.
There were multicolored beads of red, green, and yellow draped over cloth of the same color. A sign above the display proudly proclaimed the country of Sudan.
In another corner, intricate streamers hung from the ceiling over a sign for Bolivia. They were the same colors represented in the display, b
