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class, and when the rest of us were learning the stuff that she already knew, she just did her homework. Miss Lois said that she was going to let Gwen work with Mimi and me on our recycling project even though she had already done one last year at her regular school.
    Miss Lois said, "There can never be too many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to saving the earth." That is a saying I know all about, because sometimes Mom says it when she is complaining about some of the parent meetings she goes to for school. What it really means is that everyone wants to be the boss and no one wants to be a helper. And usually if you have too many bosses then people get into fighting arguments about who gets to make the rules.
    This is not something I was wanting for our plastic bottle project, and I was secretly
hoping that Gwen was not going to turn out wanting to be top cook!

    LUNCH TIME
    Gwen, of course, had lunch with us. Mimi would not tell me what her big secret was, so I knew it had to be about Gwen. Now that she was with us all the time, it was going to be hard to find out what it was. We sat with two of the other Graces while we had lunch.
    Gwen said she had met only one other Gwen in her whole life, so she thought it was pretty cool to have so many Graces around every day at school. I'm sure she wouldn't have thought it was cool if she had to be called Just Gwen for the rest of her school life.

    MIMI'S SECRET
    Gwen was having a good time talking to Grace F., so Mimi was able to get us to go to the bathroom alone. As soon as the bathroom door shut, Mimi said, "Gwen thinks I gave her Willoughby to keep! She is sleeping with him, and last night I even heard her crying on him! What am I going to do?" When someone asks you something that you can't even imagine the answer to, you have to just say something like "Wow," or "Oh, no."
    Willoughby is Mimi's favorite stuffed animal ever since she was born. When you love something that much, and have it for that long, you usually want to keep it for the rest of your life.

    MIMI AND NORMAL-SIZE WILLOUGHBY
    We could not stay in the bathroom forever, so finally we had to leave even though we did not have any brilliant ideas about how to solve Mimi's problem. It was not an easy problem to fix.
    ANSWERS WE THOUGHT OF AND WHY THEY WON'T WORK
    1 If Mimi just asks for Willoughby back, then Gwen will not have the stuffed animal she already loves, and she will cry even more and be sad that her parents are missing her birthday and she is stuck here with us.
    2 If Mimi asks Gwen to pick a different stuffed animal to love, then Gwen will not have the stuffed animal she already loves, and she will cry even more and be sad that her
parents are missing her birthday and she is stuck here with us.
    3 If Mimi could find another Willoughby, she could give that one to Gwen and then she could get her own old Willoughby back. This seemed like the best idea, but Mimi has never in her entire life seen another Willoughby anywhere. Willoughbys are not like Graces.
    4 Mimi could ask her mom to help, except that her mom already saw Gwen with Willoughby and said to Mimi, "That was very nice of you to let Gwen have Willoughby to help her feel better."
    I didn't say anything about it but there was one thing that I was thinking about
stuffed animals that was not going to help Mimi. All stuffed animals are not the same. Some you like, some you don't, and some you love. The weird thing is that you can't make the love thing happen on purpose—some stuffed animals have love magic for you and some just don't.

    MY FANCY BOTTLE
    I was 100 percent glad that I had decorated my water bottle, because as soon as Mimi saw it she did a lot of forgetting about the whole Willoughby problem. I could just tell. Gwen said it was a fantastic idea and a great way for everyone to keep using bottles over and over again.
    She had lots of craft ideas about how to decorate the bottles, and suddenly without
even doing lots of