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something besides passing the salt。 And does he want to get to know me? No! He wants to
know about Juli!
I couldn't just stand up and leave; even though that's what I felt like doing。 Somehow I knew
if I left like that; he'd quit talking to me at all。 Even
about salt。 So I sat there feeling sort of tortured。 Was he mad at me? How could he be mad
at me? I hadn't done anything wrong!
When I looked up; he was sitting there holding out the newspaper to me。 “Read this;” he said。
“Without prejudice。”
I took it; and when he went back to looking out the window; I knew — I'd been dismissed。
By the time I got down to my room; I was mad。 I slammed my bedroom door and flopped
down on the bed; and after fuming about my sorry
excuse for a grandfather for a while; I shoved the newspaper in the bottom drawer of my
desk。 Like I needed to know any more about Juli Baker。
At dinner my mother asked me why I was so sulky; and she kept looking from me to my
grandfather。 Granddad didn't seem to need any salt;
which was a good thing because I might have thrown the shaker at him。
My sister and dad were all business as usual; though。 Lyta ate about two raisins out of
her carrot salad; then peeled the skin and meat off her
chicken wing and nibbled gristle off the bone; while my father filled up airspace talking about
office politics and the need for a shakedown in uppe