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kitchen_maid) wrote2006-05-02 12:42 am
kitchen_maid) wrote2006-05-02 12:42 am
Moving Day
It's funny, Amy thinks, as she packs up room 203, how much and how little she's accumulated in the last seven months.
A half dozen dresses, and a few aprons, petticoats and nightgowns, all of which she made herself.
Her workbox.
Her prayer book, her Bible, the book of Sonnets, and a still be-glittered Basic Cookery.
A small porcelian figure and a brown-haired cornhusk doll in a red dress.
A soft blue scarf and a shawl of lavendar silk.
Tea and teacups and a teapot.
A box with assorted odds and ends -- a snowflake ornament, a bird made of paper, a gold pegasus charm on a chain, a bar of soap scented like eucalyptus.
A small bundle of notes and letters.
A quilt in autumn colors.
And a straw sombrera hat she's never had the chance to wear.
It's really only the work of a few minutes to pack it all into a pair of carpet bags. And then she settles the hat on her head, checks to make sure she's wearing all three of her necklaces -- the locket and the glass beads and the dreamcather, gathers up the squirrels and Peter Aurelious, and walks out of the room that's been her home since October.
A half dozen dresses, and a few aprons, petticoats and nightgowns, all of which she made herself.
Her workbox.
Her prayer book, her Bible, the book of Sonnets, and a still be-glittered Basic Cookery.
A small porcelian figure and a brown-haired cornhusk doll in a red dress.
A soft blue scarf and a shawl of lavendar silk.
Tea and teacups and a teapot.
A box with assorted odds and ends -- a snowflake ornament, a bird made of paper, a gold pegasus charm on a chain, a bar of soap scented like eucalyptus.
A small bundle of notes and letters.
A quilt in autumn colors.
And a straw sombrera hat she's never had the chance to wear.
It's really only the work of a few minutes to pack it all into a pair of carpet bags. And then she settles the hat on her head, checks to make sure she's wearing all three of her necklaces -- the locket and the glass beads and the dreamcather, gathers up the squirrels and Peter Aurelious, and walks out of the room that's been her home since October.