![]() Bulaire almost decides to go with him, as he unrealistically suggests, and does give him money, as (they now tell her) his half-sisters and ex-wife have often done. Though ``Junior'' is evidently unbalanced, he does seem to care about her and though he begs for a ``stake,'' he also returns some of her ``back time''-family photos and mementoes that had mysteriously vanished. On a bitter cold day, Bulaire, dazzled by snow, is rescued by her dad and taken to his cave under the Interstate, Grady following. Now, in winter, she's angry-with Grady, who teases in class but seems friendly when he follows her on long walks and-after she hears that her father isn't dead, as she's been told, but in town-with her mother Bluezy, often away singing gigs, and with the aunts and uncle who care for her. At 12, Bulaire has reason to ponder her identity a bright, prickly loner, she wonders if her looks-changeable blue-green eyes, ``golden Rasta twists,'' pale skin that summer tans ``to near-chocolate lightly washed in burnt orange''-are why she's at odds with her darker friends and relatives. ![]()
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