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Chapters 1-3

- The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Stay. Lake Union Publishing, 2019.

- At the beginning of Chapter 1, the narrator, Lucas Painter, tells the reader he is about to relate the story of a day in his life that was a turning point.

- Lucas tells the reader as well that it was the summer of 1969.

- The day begins with a letter from Lucas's brother, Roy, a soldier fighting in Vietnam.

- So much of Roy's letter has been redacted that Lucas cannot piece the narrative together.

- As he reads his brother's letter upstairs, Lucas can hear his parents fighting downstairs, a common occurrence.

- Lucas shouts downstairs, hoping to interrupt his parents and get enough quiet so he can continue reading, but his mother, irritated, tells him she and his father are trying to...

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