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thing.”
    Moxy lay back on Ajax’s La-Z-Boy. Somewhere between being Eleanor Roosevelt and being Moxy Maxwell, an important thought had occurred to her. But she couldn’t remember what it was.
    Then Granny George came over and covered Moxy’s face with an afghan.
    â€œHow’s your cold?” asked Granny George.
    â€œIt’s an absolute misery,” replied Moxy. Even though Moxy didn’t have a cold, sometimes it was easier to go along with what Granny George thought was going on.

chapter 43
    Moxy Suddenly Remembers What She Almost Forgot
    â€œYou guys, there’s no ‘Thank You’ written on the outside of these thank-you notes!” cried Moxy.
    You really couldn’t hear her, though. Here’s why:
    1. There was the vibration of the copier.
    2. There was the sound of each thank-you note being launched into the room at the rate of one every 11 seconds (as Mark calculated it).
    3. There was the fact that Moxy’s mouth was covered with an afghan.
    â€œWould you like soup or would you like to starve?” asked Granny George. Granny George was always forgetting whether you were supposed to feed a cold and starve a fever or the other way around.

chapter 44
    In Which Moxy Takes Action
    Slowly, very slowly, Moxy climbed onto the arm of Ajax’s chair. She held the afghan over her head to protect her face from flying thank-you notes and then she jumped.
    Here is a picture Mark took of Moxy jumping off the arm of Ajax’s chair with the afghan covering her face. He called it “She Walks! She Talks! She Even Flies! No, She Doesn’t.”

    â€œShe Walks! She Talks! She Even Flies! No, She Doesn’t,” by Mark Maxwell.

    Moxy landed on a nineteen-inch pile of Important Papers and slid around for a while. (“I might have been seriously injured,” she said to her mother some days later.)
    Then she followed Granny George into the kitchen.

chapter 45
    In Which Moxy First Says the Words “Gold Spray Paint”
    â€œChicken noodle? Chicken and rice? Chicken and stars? Stars and stripes?” Granny George was getting out the saucepan.
    â€œDo you know what would make me feel better?” said Moxy. “That can of gold spray paint.” She pointed to Granny’s crafts corner.
    â€œFor your cold?” said Granny George.
    â€œFor my new thank-you notes.”
    Granny George looked confused.
    â€œI need to spray-paint ‘Thank You’ on the front of each one.”
    Granny George continued to look confused.
    â€œWait here,” said Moxy. She ran upstairs, her afghan trailing after.

chapter 46
    In Which Pansy Wanders into the Kitchen and Asks Granny George Where Moxy Is
    Pansy wandered into the kitchen.
    â€œWhere’s Moxy?” she said.
    â€œSplit-pea?” said Granny George.
    â€œNo, Moxy,” repeated Pansy.
    â€œHere I am.” Moxy twirled into the kitchen, the afghan wrapped around her shoulders like a mink stole, and gave Granny George one of the thank-you notes from the box of thank-you notes her mother had given her.
    â€œSee what I mean?” said Moxy. “There’s this big gold ‘Thank You’ written on the front. Now look at the thank-you notes I’m making.” Moxy picked up one of the notes that had recently flown out of Ajax’s office and landed on the kitchen floor. “There’s no gold writing on these.”

chapter 47
    In Which Moxy Says the Words “Gold Spray Paint” Again
    â€œWhich is why,” continued Moxy, “I need the gold spray paint. So I can spray-paint ‘Thank You’ on the front of each one. Otherwise they won’t look like the ones Mom bought for me.”
    Pansy was confused, but Granny George understood. “Here’s the gold spray paint,” she said.
    Pansy couldn’t hide her surprise. “But you’re not allowed.”
    â€œGranny George just said I could.” Moxy smiled and began to