I had a stuffed animal, a little giraffe, and I’d hug it the whole time she was gone.”
When I got bigger I was allowed to stay in bigger areas. Like, ‘Stay on this block.’ Or, ‘Don’t leave the park.’”
“But even then, I still held Jaffy.” Stanley guessed that Jaffy was the name of Zero’s giraffe.
“And then one day she didn’t come back,” Zero said. His voice sounded suddenly hollow.
“I waited for her at Laney Park.” “Laney Park,” said Stanley. “I’ve been there.”
“You know the playscape?” asked Zero. “Yeah. I’ve played on it.”
“I waited there for more than a month,” said Zero.
“You know that tunnel that you crawl through, between the slide and the swinging bridge? That’s where I slept.”
They ate four onions apiece and drank about half a jar of water. Stanley stood up and looked around. Everything looked the same in all directions.
“When I left camp, I was heading straight toward Big Thumb,” he said.
“I saw the boat off to the right. So that means we have to turn a little to the left.”
Zero was lost in thought. “What? Okay,” he said. They headed out. It was Stanley’s turn to carry the sack.
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