It was even more surprising that I should learn about them now."Everything I did at home was wrong. Everything Hazel did was right." Who was Hazel?" I...could tell he knew from the way he asked the question, couldn't believe he didn't know from the files."Hazel was her niece. She was living there for the same reason as me." So you didn't get on with Hazel."I had to put that fact right. "Oh no, I loved Hazel. She was sweet. Two years younger than me. Yes, I loved Hazel. But Aunt Brenda would. I’m gonna go study”. Dropping her unopened bag on the floor next to her bed, she plopped down and grabbed her kindle and her phone, and then dashed off a quick text to Amber. “Gawd, are all families as weird as mine?” Grabbing her e-book, she quickly returned to her fantasyland, and the escape it gave her from the doldrums of normal life. She’d been reading more and more lately. She knew that, but she could not stop herself. Almost like an addiction she found herself spending more and more time. Julie simply grinned at the umpire's call. Trotting towards first base she handed me her bat, handle first as she had faced the pitcher holding the barrel, taunting the pitcher with only the handle. For the fourth time today, the opposing pitcher walked her.This was new but not unexpected, because for the last three weeks Julie had been unstoppable at the plate. Playing center field before our agreement, she had been good and would have started varsity were it not for a senior ahead of her.. The Angels were becoming a force for good here on the Island, and even on the mainland. Certainly, their teachings about hygiene led to ever-more demand for Ol’ Widder Ellis’s magic cleaning compound.He set me straight about the farming equipment. It was common knowledge that he had invented the better plows, the planters, and the harvesters that had made it so easy to sow and reap a crop for the last several years. Paul told me that it was all old Earth designs that Sir Tony, who was an.