The week before Thanksgiving, Mr. Randolph comes down with the flu. He stays over at Trotter's house, on a cot in the dining room. Soon after that, both Trotter and W.E. come down sick as well. Come Thanksgiving Day, Gilly is running around taking care of the three of them. The doorbell rings, and Gilly opens the door to find a kindly, gray-haired lady. It is her grandmother.
Gilly's grandmother, Mrs. Hopkins, begins telling Gilly about how she hadn't heard from her daughter Courtney in years, how her husband, Gilly's grandfather, had passed away, and how she only recently learned that Courtney had given birth to a daughter, Galadriel. Gilly hardly knows how to respond, when a sickly William Ernest appears in the doorway. Gilly rushes him back upstairs, and quickly puts.....
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