Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERY SUNDAY MORNING DAVID Nelson's family attends church on nearby Williams Mountain, where his father Larry, a coal miner, was born 39 years ago. Inside the small Advent Christian church that his father and mother Joy, 36, helped build, David joins his brother Stephen, 7, and his sister Nancy, 13, in a Bible class. Later in the day, the family drives an hour and 15 minutes to another Advent Christian church at the top of a distant and twisting hollow. David's parents, who are licensed to preach, lead the service, which lasts nearly two hours...
Tears well up in Joy's eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...school ended for the summer, she started Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater. "I love it," Katie says enthusiastically. "It's about a boy who is twelve. He's remembering last summer when he was eleven and his parents were away. He's left with his sister, but then his sister goes away for the weekend with these hippies at a camp. I don't know yet how it ends but maybe, because of the title, the boy will meet a lizard that makes music with a flute...
...imaginative world of fantasy complements the otherwise complicated and often hectic pace of Katie Davis' life. Much like the boy in Lizard Music, Katie will be spending the summer hanging out with her half-sister Mona Wessels, 16. "It was weird when Mona came to live with us," says Katie. "It was like a new person, like we're adopting someone because you are taking someone from your family who doesn't live there into your family again. It's a funny feeling. It's nice but it's kinda weird...
...Katie and Mona spend a lot of time together. Before school let out for the summer, Katie was sometimes picked up by her sister from an after-school day-care program and walked home. This summer Mona and Katie will take field trips around Seattle while the Davises work. Katie and Mona will travel to the zoo or the aquarium or the science center on city buses. Or because they share a passion for reading, they will walk to the community library and find more books. "Mona teaches me all this stuff," says Katie, who asks Mona to dress...