Amy was three years younger than I. Mother and Amy and I went out separate ways in peace."1
It hadn't always been that way. "I had made several attempts to snuff baby Amy in her cradle. Mother had repeatedly discovered me pouring glasses of water carefully into her face. So when Molly had appeared, Mother led me to believe the new baby was a kind of present for me."1
When she was ten, "The great outer world hove into view and began to fill with things that had apparently been there all along: mineralogy, detective work, lepidopterology, ponds and streams, flying, society. My younger sister Amy and I were to start at private school that year: the Ellis School, on Fifth Avenue. I would start dancing school."1
Managing to get a card to the adult section at her library, she came upon a "small blue-bound book printed in fine type on thin paper, like the Book of Common Prayer." Ann Haven Morgan's The Field Book of Ponds and Streams. "When you checked out a book from the Homewood Library, the librarian wrote your number on the book's card and stamped the due date on a sheet glued to the book's last page.
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