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I’ll be your truant officer today, he offered. Climb up. We’ll take the long way to school. Too late to check on Guinevere; her empty hand reached for the dusty window, too dark to see her sweetness resting in the tissue box. But she still hoped even as Jody handed her atop the horse’s back. She was so high that her head brushed the overgrown branches of the maples that lined the street, and when Jody swung on before her, he ducked his head as he guided the horse away from the brush. She balanced, but it was easy with his girth before her, patting the horse’s neck even as he held the reins, leading it around parked cars with darkened windows and empty gas tanks. She kept her hands on her legs, and did not rest as she had when Jesse drove her. This was a man who loved her mother, so she gripped his denim jacket only to keep from falling off. -From Near-Mint Cinderella by Alison Ruth. Pre-order your copy at aqueousbooks/store.html
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