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How do I get to the pea - nuts? I wonder.
I scratch

and pull
and push

and squeeze
the bag of pea - nuts,

but nothing happens.

One of the other helper ladies
in the sky-colored coat

comes over to me.
Do you need help opening the bag? she asks.

Yes please, I say, and nod my head.
She takes the bag,

and it pops open.

She gives it back, and I take one of the pea - nuts.
I put it in my mouth.

It tastes bad, like mud.

So I spit it out onto the floor.

The loud voice in the wall of the flying boat

says something,
but I don’t understand it.

Jessica gives me a big cup of water.
I don’t want such clean and beautiful water

to go to waste, so I drink it all.
Now, I have to go to the bathroom.

I try to ask Jessica where is the bathroom,
but I forget how,

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