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But that’s the price we pay for warm, dry weather, she thought, so I’ll gladly put up with it. The years she had spent driving on paved streets in Calgary had spoiled her, but in the time she had been home in Emblem, she had become accustomed to these annoyances again. And they needed the dry days to get the crops harvested.
I’m beginning to think like a farmer. She smiled at the thought.
“Auntie Tyne?”
She glanced at Bobby, and saw his face turned up towards her, eyes big and questioning.
“Yes, sweetheart?”
“Are we going to see Mommy now?”
Before Tyne could answer, she heard a thud, and knew that Rachael had kicked the back of the boy’s seat.
“No, stupid,” Rachael spat, “Mommy’s dead. We can’t see her anymore.”
Tyne saw the little face beside her begin to crumble. She reached out and pulled him into a hug. “Bobby dear, we’re going to see Mrs. Milligan. Do you remember her?”
He sniffed. “Yeth, she looked after us while you went to work at the hospital.”
Thud. “I don’t want to see her. I want to go home to Daddy.” Another thud.
Bobby, fed up with being bounced around in his seat, pulled out of Tyne’s embrace, and swung around to frown at his sister.“Stop that, Rachael. Stop kicking me.”
“You can’t make me. You’re such a baby.”
“Am not,” Bobby yelled before Tyne could put a warning hand on his leg.
“All right, Rachael, that’s enough. Don’t torment your brother.”
When there was no reply from the backseat, Tyne glanced in the rear view mirror, and saw the pout had returned to the girl’s face. She took a deep breath. Oh Lord, please help me handle this the right way.
“Rachael honey, how would you like to go shopping when we get to Emblem? We could get you a new dress, and a warm coat …
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