Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would cry. Instead, she exploded. "Well, fuck you!" She whirled around to look at the others, and they flinched from her gaze, so hot it was nearly radioactive. "Fuck all of you if you think the same thing!" she turned back to Bill and began to talk fast, rapping him with words. "This is something more than some diddly shit kids game like tag, or guns, or hide and go seek, and you know it, Bill! We're supposed to do this, that's part of it! And you're not going to cut me out just because I'm a girl, do you understand? You better. Or I'm leaving right now!
What is the matter with people?_ Sam fumed. __ said we needed a hundred kids and we get thirteen? Fifteen, maybe?___hey__e just kids,_ Astrid said.__e__e all just kids. We__e all going to be very hungry kids.___hey__e used to being told what to do by their parents or teachers. You need to be more direct. As in, Hey, kid, get to work. Now._ She thought for a moment then added, __r else.___r else what?_ Sam asked.__r else_I don__ know. We__e not going to let anyone starve. If we can help it. I don__ know the __r else._ All I know is you can__ expect kids to just automatically behave the right way. I mean, when I was little my mom would give me a gold star when I was good and take away a privilege when I wasn__.___hat am I supposed to do? Tell three hundred kids spread out in seventy or eighty different homes that they can__ watch DVDs? Confiscate iPods?___t__ not easy playing daddy to three hundred kids,_ Astrid admitted.____ not anyone__ daddy,_ Sam practically snarled. Another sleepless night, in a long string of them, had left him in a foul mood. ____ supposed to be the mayor, not the father.___hese kids don__ know the difference,_ Astrid pointed out. __hey need parents. So they look to you. And Mother Mary. Me, even, to some extent.
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What is the matter with people?_ Sam fumed. __ said we needed a hundred kids and we get thirteen? Fifteen, maybe?___hey__e just kids,_ Astrid said.__e__e all just kids. We__e all going to be very hungry kids.___hey__e used to being told what to do by their parents or teachers. You need to be more direct. As in, Hey, kid, get to work. Now._ She thought for a moment then added, __r else.___r else what?_ Sam asked.__r else_I don__ know. We__e not going to let anyone starve. If we can help it. I don__ know the __r else._ All I know is you can__ expect kids to just automatically behave the right way. I mean, when I was little my mom would give me a gold star when I was good and take away a privilege when I wasn__.___hat am I supposed to do? Tell three hundred kids spread out in seventy or eighty different homes that they can__ watch DVDs? Confiscate iPods?___t__ not easy playing daddy to three hundred kids,_ Astrid admitted.____ not anyone__ daddy,_ Sam practically snarled. Another sleepless night, in a long string of them, had left him in a foul mood. ____ supposed to be the mayor, not the father.___hese kids don__ know the difference,_ Astrid pointed out. __hey need parents. So they look to you. And Mother Mary. Me, even, to some extent.
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