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XXVIII THE future was a near thing to Katie. She had a way of saying, "Christmas will be here before you know it." Or, at the beginning of vacation, "School will be starting up before you know it." In the spring when Francie discarded her long drawers and joyously flung them away, mama made her pick them up again saying, "You'll need them soon enough again. Winter will be here before you know it." What was mama talking about? Spring had just started. The winter would never come again. michael kors bags for men
A small child has little idea of the future. Next week is as far ahead as his future stretches and the year between Christmas and Christmas again is an eternity. So time was with Francie up until her eleventh year. Between her eleventh and twelfth birthday, things changed. The future came along quicker; the days seeme shorter and the weeks seemed to have less days in them. Henny Gais died and this had something to do with it. She had always heard that Henny was going to die. michael kors gold bags sale She heard about it so much that she finally got to believe he would die. But that would be a long, long time away. Now the long time had come. The something which ha been a future was now a present and would become a past. Francie wondered whether someone had to die to make that clear to a child. But no, Grandfather Rommely had died when she was nine, a week after she made her first Communion and as she remembered, Christmas still had seemed far away at that time. Things were changing so fast for Francie now, that she got mixed up. michael kors on sale
Neeley who was a year younger than she, grew suenly and got to be a head taller. Maudie Donavan moved away. When she returned on a visit three months later, Francie found her different. Maudie had developed in a womanly way during those three months. Francie, who knew mama was always right, found out that she was wrong once in a while. She discovered that some of the things she loved so much in her father were considered very comical to other people. The scales at the tea store did not shine so brightly any more and she found the bins were chipped and shabby looking.