cry. I stared at a girl walking with a blue parrysol and I had awful
jealous feelings to be just an old rag doll adoption out of an asylum
and now not wanted by you any more. I had those feelings while that
girl passed by seven lamp posts and then I saw what a mean, selfish,
horrid, piggy thing I was, not to like you to be a romantic and have
such happy looks on you as I never saw there before!
Then you and Daddy hugged me on both sides and asked what was my
sadness and I was ashamed but must tell with all those coaxes and
you both said this wasn’t any Dolly deffynition kind of honeymoon
but you two wanted it all trimmed up with children. For that we are
going next week to a cottage by the same lake where the orphans stay
in a big camp with the money out of the kind old gentleman’s hat at
Christmas. And Daddy says in its turn of ten at once every orphan
gets a ride in his gassylean launch on the lake.
I can’t hardly believe yet that Isabella is to come for her vacation
from the school where she was put by the will of her deadngone
Bennyfactor and that Dolly is to visit for a month and my Italian
cousins out of their tenement. Joy! joy! joy! joy!
O! O! O! and Daddy Dear took a dockument out of his pocket about you
and him adopting me leegully for all my life! That dockument is my
dipploma to be graduated out of the orphan school; only I made no
down-head, up-chest bow but plenty of hugs to you and Daddy Dear
instead.
O and he don’t bring fractions in our family and divide our loves
as I was afraid! It was before he came we were fractionary but now
complete. And my love for him is not cut off my love for you but is
new by itself.
This is my last blank page, but I don’t need any more because now I’m
all finished up like a once-on-a-time story in my green fairy book to
“live happy ever after” with my adored parents. Amen! Amen! Amen!
Giovanna.
THE END.
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