Dina & Dan Feel Remarkable

Why don't you just go home you freaks says our neighbor when we arrived very early to go to the yard sale in the neighborhood because yard sales were a big thing around here, everyone poor buying everyone else's stuff, no one is rich around here, the houses are old and have been in families for generations so people simply own them outright and that is why they are here and so everyone from the community scurries to the grand opening of the yard sale and this particular yard sale there were boxes of hair care products, bows and gels of all kinds and this lady wanted it and the mother of the house gave her a deal but her math was off and the lady got sore about it and another lady piped up as is happens at yard sales in the community and the mother says well I don't care and before she finishes the other lady says well she cares, its her money and the lady who wants the boxes says o don't worry about it and the mother says, what I was going to say was, I don't care what you give me for them and the ladies say nothing and the woman pays what the mother wants and says I am going to give these to my little niece, tell her we're going to play dress up and when she leaves we hear the mother say who would want their child to put those dirty things in their hair, what she is going to do is resell everything in that box for a higher cost, make some money, all of these dirt people, this dirt city.

We are at this yard sale and we have been here on and off all day since it is just a block away and we are getting into things, trying clothes that obviously don't fit on and running around and playing with toys and breaking them and finally the mother says leave please you freaks, leave.

One of her daughters is on the porch watching us. She is the black sheep of the family. She and her sister will always be treated differently. The daughter on the porch was a replacement child for the one they lost before her. She will be ignored when the other children come, especially her blond haired sister and her two little brothers. She will be left out and not included in anything. In adulthood, she will be goth and misunderstood. Her sister will get her Master's Degree in English and have two children named after literary heroes and writers.

We begin to run, kicking a ball we steal that no one notices.