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Wonder 52
What a great start to the day, I thought during lunch as I savored a chocolate pastry. Sometimes, the microwave does a lousy job of heating the pastry, leaving a frozen core in the center, but this time, that center core was melted and delicious.
I’d met the greatest kid that morning, a boy named Tanner.
“Are you the doctor?” he asked.
“I’m a nurse!” I said. “What’s up? Let’s see if we can make…
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Wonder 36
Charlie
I got a call from the gallery. They’d received requests for my artwork.
“We want to buy up all the canvases that the members of your club create, too,” said the gallery owner.
“You want Paint’s’ work?” I asked.
“Absolutely!”
It turns out that a critic wrote a review of my work, “Wonder Child, Wonder Artist.” Somehow, the name recognition of Rocca, thanks to the fame of Pai and meu avô,…
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Wonder 31
Charlie
I told Tia Berry my decision to become a doctor after I graduate. She laughed in my face.
“You’re joking, right?” she said.
“No, I’m serious.”
“Oh, Chazzie. But the medical establishment? It’ll eat your soul!”
She went on to outlay for me the ways that traditional medicine focuses on pathology, viewing everyone as a potential client and conspiring with the pharmaceuticals to keep people…
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Wonder 26
Charlie
Minha mãe is a hero. I always knew it. Today, due to my idiocy, I put that knowledge to the test. It started with the best intentions: my club buddies were over, we were hungry after yoga practice, and I volunteered to scramble up some eggs for us.
Tia Berry said that morning that she heard snapping sounds coming from the stove when she was heating water for tea. We thought it was the…
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Wonder 25
Mae
Lately, I’ve been watching Charlie as if I’m seeing him for the first time. I wonder if my dad felt like this sometimes. I remember once, I was about Charlie’s age, and I was writing in my journal. I remember that I felt excited–I’d just discovered something. I forget what it was, but I was writing quickly, and when I looked up, I caught my dad looking at me.
“What are you doing?” I asked my…
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Wonder 24
Beryl
What a help Charlie is around the house! No surprise–he’s always been considerate and helpful, even when he was a little kid, and now that he’s a teen, he’s capable of actually helping, rather than getting in the way with a smile.
The day after Mae’s birthday, I insisted that Charlie take a break from chores.
“I know you really want to work on that song you’re composing,” I told him. “Do…
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Wonder 22
Beryl
At what point along our way do we say, “This is the life we have chosen.” How much of our life have we chosen? Mae and I chose to move to Windenburg, all those years ago. It was my dream, really, and Mae chose to come along.
Mae chose to keep Charlie–and not to marry Paolo–and we both chose to raise Charlie together.
My career as a painter has developed as I’d dreamed–in fact, it’s…
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Wonder 16
Mae
“Chazzie’s teacher called,” Beryl said. “They’re wanting to test him again.”
“Why?”
“Because he’s so smart but his grades don’t reflect it.”
“That’s so ridiculous,” I said. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t gotten into this program with Charlie. I know I felt I needed the prenatal care, but what if I actually didn’t need it? Now, the program administrators feel like they’ve got a right to our lives.
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