You’re not fooling anyone when you do,” he snaps. “For starters, it’s wrong to call an assignment a favor. Gaarder, along with a reading list, also put Ahmed on guard. A welcome letter from his sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. He isn’t swayed by his dad’s warm memories of growing up in Farthing and the yearly box of Pearson’s Nut Goodies, maple syrup and autumn leaves sent by a childhood friend.
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There’s an abandoned wading boot half-hidden in the brush near the river.
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