Stella

1 “I don’t really know for sure,” Stella told him.

2 Stella watched the eagle circle and glide, and thought back to Spoon Man’s story.

3 Stella's diligence at work won her a quick promotion.

史黛拉的勤奋工作让她快速升迁.

4 Stella’s mom pulls her dad into a tight hug.

5 But Stella focused on kicking up clouds from the reddish dirt at her feet instead.

6 Stella kept coaxing her forward, then pulled the girl into her arms.

7 Once Stella saw a trainer hit a bull elephant with a claw-stick.

8 Magdalys pushed gently on Stella’s neck, leaning her forward into a crouch so the approaching orphans could climb on.

9 “It’s just you and Stella,” I say, and for some reason, I feel we have let her down.

10 “Give it a try, Stella. Trust the words. Maybe that image will fade.”

11 “I guess not,” Stella said, thinking back to what Mama had said about her grandmother not sleeping for twenty years.

12 Stella was happy for an excuse to close her notebook.

13 “Just...just getting medicine for my brother,” Stella replied, looking down at her shoes.

14 Stella could hear the clanking of its bell and the sound of it bumping into things.

15 “Never be afraid to be honest and stand up for what is right, Stella,” he said pointedly.

16 Stella had heard sermons about Moses so many times before that she thought she could give a Moses sermon.

17 Gently pushing open the door, I watch Stella for a moment.

18 Without a second thought, Stella ripped it into wide strips, which she wrapped loosely round and round her mother’s leg.

19 Her sister is rocking this clear and strong and powerful voice, while Stella’s is breathy and soft, smooth in all the right ways.

20 Mama, sitting with her leg elevated on a pillow, directed, guiding her on details Stella had never paid much attention to before—like boiling and frying and searing.

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2 弗兰克

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