Juniper Crane -- District Seven [CBD FIN]

JUNIPER
CRANE



juniper annise crane
fourteen
district seven
tina sosna
alzheimer's disease

Let's take at the look at the things little Juniper would never do: One, she would never wear pants. She has seen Nam's incident with a paper knife and she sure didn't want a slit down her seam. Dressing was easier with a dress, she believed, and though it was quite silly that she took time to weave flowers into her hair when it was much easier to slip cloth on her legs, we didn't bother saying otherwise. Two, she would never run away. Never ever ever. Father may be a woodcutter and Mother nothing more than a wife but they sired like rabbits and now there's Emma and Lena and Sam and Isaac and Joshua and Penny... It was a handful and the house only ever got silent during the dead of the night, but Juniper vowed to never leave. If she does, will Mother even remember her? Mother used to know everything, from how Penny liked her soup with mint (it's digusting, the rest of us agreed) and how Sam never wanted her to leave our wooden shack - it has been more than once since she'd escape and she's just been so forgetful...

Three, Juniper would never sneak in the library again. It was Lena's idea, and they carried the burden of knowing that Mother had Alzheimer's and none of them was a doctor. But most of all, Juniper would never touch a book. Why? "All the words ever do is swim and fly," she said to her teacher but she just laughed.