and I knew that she didn’t mean she and Dad fighting on the phone because that stuff just happens sometimes.
She just noticed that I looked very sad today, and she didn’t think it was my friends leaving
because I looked okay yesterday when I came back from sledding.
“Is it your aunt Helen?” It was the way she said it that started me feeling.
“Please, don’t do this to yourself, Charlie.” But I did do it to myself. Like I do every year on my birthday.
“I’m sorry.” My mom wouldn’t let me talk about it. She knows that I stop listening and start to really breathe fast.
She covered my mouth and wiped at my eyes. I calmed down enough to make it downstairs.
And I calmed down enough to be glad when my brother came home. And when we ate dinner, it wasn’t too dry.
Then, we went outside to put up luminaria, which is an activity where all our neighbors fill brown paper bags with sand and line the street with them.
Then, we stick a candle in the sand of each bag, and when we light the candles, it turns the street into a “landing strip” for Santa Claus.
I love putting luminaria up every year because it is very beautiful and a tradition and a good distraction from my birthday.
My family gave me some really nice birthday presents. My sister was still mad at me, but she got me a Smiths record anyway.
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