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27 Eva told me she kept a secret notebook for recording her dreams. She dreamed often of flying—not in an airplane, but under her own power. She'd fly to Miami, where her real father lived with his other family. She'd fly through the rooms; she'd land on the dinner table and eat from the plate of her stepsister. Once, she woke up to the sound of the birds outside her window and she thought, for a dreamy second or two, that she understood what they were saying. I told her about my dreams of my father. She told me about her dreams of being lost in the woods and seeing a clearing and heading for it, only to have the clearing close up before she got there. I told her about my dreams of being back in my room at home. She told me that sometimes she laughed in her dreams, but she usually couldn't remember what was so funny. And then I told her about beingworried that I would become one of those people who have no control over their lives, like the man who had to whistle a tune and walk backwards every time he saw a cat. 99 27 Eva told me she kept a secret notebook for recording her dreams. She dreamed often offlying-not in an airplane, but under her own power. She'd fly to Miami, where her real father lived with his other family. She'd fly through the rooms; she'd land on the dinner table and eat from the plate of her stepsister. Once, she woke up to the sound of the birds outside her window and she thought, for a dreamy second or two, that she understood what they were saying. I told her about my dreams of my father. She told me about her dreams ofbeing lost in the woods and seeing a dearing and heading for it, only to have the dearing dose up before she got there. I told her about my dreams of being back in my room at home. She told me that sometimes she laughed in her dreams, but she usually couldn't remember what was so funny. And then I told her about being worried that I would become one of those people who have no control over their lives, like the man who had to whistle a tune and walk backwards every time he saw a cat. 99 ...

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