Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Author:Jacqueline Woodson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group

Your brother always.

Peace,

Lonnie

Dear Lili,

Today after school me and Angel and Clyde and Eric were playing ball in the freezing cold and Eric started saying he had a dream about Lamont and in the dream, Lamont was in his warm backyard in his big swimming pool. We all started talking about how lucky Lamont was to not have to be in New York City in the wintertime. I was so cold, my fingers were hurting, and Clyde couldn’t hardly talk because he was shivering so much. Eric kept running up to the basket trying to do layups (and missing) but the whole time he was talking about Lamont and the stuff they used to do together. He said one time him and Lamont walked all the way from Brooklyn to Harlem. It took us from the morning to the afternoon, he said. And by the time we got to One Two Five Street, our dogs was tired! Then Eric got this grin on his face and said it was real nice to just be walking with your friend and talking junk. We all said yeah because none of us had ever heard Eric talk that much about anything and see him be so happy with a memory. Angel said when the weather wasn’t so cold anymore we should all walk to Harlem in memory of Lamont and his crazy self. Then snow started coming down—first just a few flakes, then a whole lot, and we just stopped playing ball and stood there looking up at the sky. I think we were all thinking about Lamont. Maybe he was sitting in his pool with a soda in his hand, staring up at his own Florida sky and remembering us.

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