![]() You can’t stay in there forever, Wilbert says. Not a soul knows about it except Wilbert and he is my Best Brother and would never tell anyone, not even the nosy wind. It is a hollowed-out tree that fits a child like me just fine and is my secret spot. You got to stop running away.īut I am content where I am in the old sorcerer tree. I want to say that it is very hard indeed to have sisu when you’re the only girl on the Nasel.Ĭome on out of there, May, Wilbert says. Sisu is a Finn word that means to have guts and courage. Wilbert is always telling me that I need to find my sisu or I will never make Pappa proud of me. ![]() We live on the Nasel River in the state of Washington. Wilbert is fourteen, and my Best Brother. Kaarlo is eighteen and our cousin, although we think of him as a brother. Matti is nineteen and he ran away not that I blame him. I don’t know why he would want any more boys seeing as he already has seven. Pappa says I’m Just Plain Stupid because I Never Pay Attention and that he would rather have one boy than a dozen May Amelias because Girls Are Useless. I washed out the jar of yeast starter and we won’t have bread for a week. Wilbert has found me here on the Baby Island where I have to come to hide from Pappa who is Spitting Mad at me. ![]() ![]() Someday I will be a Pearl, but I will nag and irritate the poor oyster and everyone else up until then. My brother Wilbert tells me that I’m like the grain of sand in an oyster. ![]()
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