<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I like this piece a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Is this a true story? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Where you say that she will see the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>death of each loved one, <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">like her grandmother did, <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Did you mean that she was just to be visited by
that person before they went on<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>into
the after life, <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">or did you mean that you would have to see the
way they died as well? <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">I think that the way this is worded<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>leaves a question that could be made a little
more clear.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">DeAnna sub for September Good title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Farewell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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“Norah!” The young girl jerked bolt upright in bed, the sound of her name
echoing in her head. Who had called her? She wrapped her thin arms tightly
across her narrow chest. She listened intently for any sounds in the silence of
the house. A branch of the old oak scraped against the shingles over her head.
The wind moaned under the eaves. Dimly, she could make out the form of her
younger sister Emily curled in sleep with Liam, their two year old brother
nestled against her. All appeared quiet in the room across the hall where John,
Simon and Patrick slept. What had awakened her? She must have been dreaming.
Now that she was awake, she decided she was thirsty. She slipped from under the
worn quilts and padded out of the room on wool stocking clad feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">
The doorway at the far end of the hall leading to the kitchen seemed bright
with ambient light. A tall figure stepped in to that light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">“Pa! When did you get
home?” she called softly as she moved toward him. He raised a hand motioning
her to stop, smiled placing a finger to his lips. For a moment they stood at
opposite ends of the long hall. Then, Sean O’Connor turned away giving his
eldest child one last glance and disappeared from the doorway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Norah ran down the hall.
Reaching the kitchen, she paused in confusion. The room was empty. Slowly she
crossed to the back door. The bolt was still pulled across and turned to the
locked position. It wasn’t the kind that could be unlocked with a key. Tears
filled her green eyes, as she scanned the dim kitchen. She realized that even
if her father were there, the light wasn’t bright enough to have seen his face.
Sorrow filled her as she squinted to make out the time on the old mantel clock.
Norah didn’t need to wait for the telegram telling his family not to expect
their father home again. She knew that somewhere on a battlefield half a world
away Pa had started on his last journey. Nora also knew that she had inherited
the “<i>gift or curse”</i> that had burdened her gram all the days of her
long life. Each death of a loved one, each disaster or trouble would unfold
before her eyes whether she wished to know or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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