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Fup. Store Cat.
The Trip to Kahani
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Fup says, "A big trunk covered with bumper stickers would come off the mail truck and we'd track its route on the map displayed under glass on the front counter, sticker to sticker, city to town. Or when we saw our aunt's name stamped on a package, we'd shout, 'Orono!' Always, our mother would insist, 'My sister is in Ohio.' She'd paw the postmark, which of course clearly read, 'Orono, MAINE.'
"Weeks passed. The snow banks got so big we couldn't see out the front windows without first climbing up on the counter, so we spent a lot of time looking at that map.
"Each morning we honed our hunting skills by catching mice in the root cellar. In the evening, our father would tell us, 'In Texas, cats hunt fish that walk on land,' and he'd point to Texas. He'd stand in the Midwest and announce, 'Here, where these two rivers meet, cats hunt frogs bigger than Old Man Dyer's schnauzer.'
"Then one afternoon the packages came off the mail truck, and as we sometimes did we followed Penny and Bruno in among the boxes still on board. It never occurred to my sisters and me that we'd be leaving in it. We had no idea that our parents had been plotting the escape all winter, much less why."
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