Pappa doesn′t like little girls very much in general, and me in particular. That you can see the hardness in the lines of his face, what with coming all the way to Washington after being pressed into the Finnish Navy and leaving Finland. Wilbert tells me that Pappa has had a hard life. He says that I am a Girl and because I am a girl I cannot be doing what the boys are doing, that there is danger everywhere. Pappa is always yelling at me Don′t Get Into Mischief May Amelia when all I′m ever doing is what some other boy has done first. We live on the Nasel in the state of Washington. Only Wilbert and I can tell them apart, even Mamma has trouble. He is Alvin′s twin and they look as alike as two blackberries. Kaarlo is seventeen and one half and is really our cousin but I guess he′s sort of a brother. My secret birthday wish is to get a sister but I don′t know how likely that is. Wilbert is thirteen and my favourite brother which is something indeed since I have so many brothers, more than any girl should have. Even Wilbert says it is terrible that Pappa was awful to me today, on my own birthday. Wilbert has found me here on the Baby Island where I have run away on account of Pappa being awful to me. He tells me this as we stand at the edge of the water, on the Nasel River, watching it rush by crazily. My brother Wilbert tells me that I was the first ever girl born in Nasel, that I was A Miracle.
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