![]() ![]() ![]() When the girls' father dies, Serena Jane is taken in by a wealthy couple and Truly is dropped off at the deteriorating farm of a local family. Her size seems all the more incredulous when she stands next to her beautiful and petite sister Serena Jane. But Truly's birth is also marked by the death of her mother and the beginning of her father's descent into alcoholism. Truly Plaice's birth brings out the betting folks of Aberdeen County who wonder how large a baby must be to stretch a mother to such huge proportions. ![]() from The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, page 32. Since I began walking at the unprecedented age of seven months, I had fallen down the stairs twice, plunged unharmed into the flower beds from the front porch, and survived being pushed into oncoming traffic by Serena Jane in our rusted red wagon. Something impervious to smashes and collisions. Whereas Serena Jane possessed the limbs and features of a vain little pixie, my physiognomy brought to mind the heaviest and roundest of objects - a cannonball, perhaps. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker. ![]()
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