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She was inbetween, with her childhood at the back of her and something illogical and confusing that loomed in front.

The book said that people were small gods filled with the power of the Almighty and able to enact their own lives, dispense wisdom and justice.

The jostling in the kitchen, though, was warm and companionable and for Olive, it was a rare spectacle. There was no other occasion that the three sisters came together in anything even approximating harmony. No one called anyone feeble or a martyr. No one got huffy and swept from the room in high dudgeon. There was a quiet, a hushed sense of almost-giggling as if the sisters might in a bizarre and spontaneous moment hang off each other’s necks to laugh about something from their childhood. It never happened but there was the feeling that it could.