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'But what the crop could never survive,' Olive would say, 'is losing Ray Kendall. Larch wrote, 'we treat orphans as if they came from royal families. Homer Wells would have made that summer last the rest of his life if he could have. Once he saw elephants; they were dragging logs out of the forests.

It was difficult for him to remain silent about the rest of it. 'It would be awkward to have all the girls come to the boys' division. Nothing about the building, from the outside, prepared him. The older orphans had their irritating habits.