Number the Stars
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Christie's birthday she wrongly remembers fireworks going off what did she really here
Christie's birthday she wrongly remembers fireworks going off what did she really here
The fireworks were actually bombs.
Then Annemarie remembered. Kirsti 's birthday was late in August. And that night, only a month before, she, too, had been awakened and frightened by the sound of explosions. Kirsti was right—the sky in the southeast had been ablaze, and Mama had comforted her by calling it a birthday celebration. "Imagine, such fireworks for a little girl five years old!" Mama had said, sitting on their bed, holding the dark curtain aside to look through the window at the lighted sky.
Number the Stars