"She made the letters slowly and carefully, not so easily even as she had made them as a child, but she told herself she would write a little every day. Practice, the teacher said, when her lessons were so clumsy-looking beside all the others that she was shamed almost to tears." (Robinson 43) After days of moving from place to place with Doll, Lila finally got the opportunity to start her education again, but she is so far behind it it making her upset. (K)
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