Georgia sneaks her brother\u2019s tin box of farm toys out of the closet, arranges wooly sheep, black and white cows, bearded goats, green tillers, and squat hay balers. She lets them putt-putter on the patchwork quilt, supplying moos, baas, clanks and vrooms, snorting when she plunges the curly-tailed pig snout-down into the toy box-now-hog trough. Her hand grazes something at the bottom, something she\u2019s overlooked, but recognizes now. She drops the piglet, falls silent, her nine-year-old heart galloping a fury. It\u2019s the red farmer atop a red tractor with a sneery smirk and a piece of hay stuck between his teeth, like her older, apple-cheeked cousin, Hunter, had when he took her into the field to see the corn last summer, as if she hadn\u2019t seen it before and needed him to show her how to pick and shuck it just right. Georgia turns the toy this way and that, sniffs its oily rubber odor, examines each scarlet detail under the glare of the bedside lamp before twisting off the head and burying the evidence deep under her mattress.<\/p>\n
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