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Geela's dog ...

     Doug suddenly noticed the woman. She was intent on something in a shop window. The dog was still looking right at him, ears up, as if waiting for something. "Not her. The dog."
        "What dog?"
        With that, Doug realized it was, once again, time to be careful. The dog was in full sight – to him, anyway. "I thought I saw a dog."
        "Yeah, sure thing, dweebcase. You've got your taste, I've got mine." With that, Ron guffawed and pulled ahead.

Caro had never seen Geela's dog, though she lived right next door to Pirate's Den. And she didn't see it now, though Geela was laughing and saying, "Fluffers. Fluffery. Flufferduff." Geela was turning round and round, looking at something, as if at a dog racing round and round her.
        Geela looked normal. Jeans. A t-shirt. Bare feet. Hair back in a short ponytail. Caro had seen lots of grownups like that. Her face looked normal too, with eyes that seemed to really see you.
        Caro tried to imagine that Geela's dog was real, that even if she couldn’t see the dog, that she could see the wispy dry grass waving as if a dog was whizzing through it. Her imagination wasn't strong enough. Her mind told her she was seeing the wind blowing the grass. She sighed regretfully. She would have loved the sight of a ghost dog, at least in broad daylight. It would have made a good story – not that there was anyone to tell it to, these days.

Then Geela was looking straight at her. She had stopped turning, all of a sudden. "When you keep a spirit with you," she said, "You have to take care of it. You have to love it, give it attention, or you've betrayed it in a deep way. I couldn't let Fluffers go when she died. So now she is with me." She saw Caro's face, polite but blank, and she smiled right at Caro. "You don't see her, do you?"
        Caro wondered if she should tell the truth. If she pretended, Geela would probably tell her more, and Caro liked stories. But Caro had a hard time telling lies, so she went for the truth. "Nope," she said. "I don't see her. I don't see anything. Not a thing."
        "Sometimes, neither do I," said Geela. "I have to be careful. Sometimes I get busy and she fades. But soon I can feel she is …" here Geela paused for words, "behind a dark glass, scratching at it, jumping at it, wanting to get out."

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Meg, Jon and Myra Face a Cold and Rainy Day

Once again, Meg was droning in her head, all because of Jon. Kids stories, kids story, kid stories, stories for kids, childrens story.
Her mom, who meditated, did stuff like that, said things over and over in a droning dreamy kind of voice.
But Meg didn't usually do that kind of thing. But once again, she was finished reading and had to wait for Jon.
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Meg tried not to fidget. She looked back at the page, read over what she had just read:

"When you keep a spirit with you," Geela said,
"You have to take care of it. You have to love it, give it attention,
or you've betrayed it in a deep way."

Meg loved that. She was sure, if she had a spirit with her, she would never betray it.

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