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months to settle,” Mr. Quinn suggested. “Maybe around the holidays? Christmas?”
    Both her parents nodded. “We can do that,” her dad added.
    Eva noticed how lovingly her dad looked at her mom and she back at him. It made her wonder if, for the past year, they had fallen back in love. They had arrived in the same car—h r father’s white Ford Explorer. That was something, wasn’t it? The car that awaited Eva was a yellow taxi, and the driver, a stocky man with a shaved head, but a friendly smile, had opened the trunk door.
    “We packed your bag,” her mom said, showing Eva a medium-sized brown leather bag in the trunk. “Just some clothes and shoes.”
    “And this,” Kate added, handing over the hairbrush and lipstick.
    Eva’s mom looked confused as she took it, but then placed Eva’s only possessions, besides her books, in the leather bag. “Mr. Quinn said everything else would be provided for,” her mom continued.
    “And it will,” Mr. Quinn assured her with a smile.
    Eva said a final goodbye to her parents and Kate. There were more tears, even from her dad, but finally everyone separated. Kate went back inside the hospital, still wiping tears from her eyes. Her parents drove away, smiling and waving to her from the car window. 
    The taxi driver had already closed the trunk, and was now in the driver’s seat, ready to take them to the airport. Mr. Quinn held the back door open for Eva to enter, and she settled in behind the driver, with the headmaster next to her. 
    As they left, she turned around in her seat, and took one final look at the hospital. For some strange reason, she was sad. She had never wanted to be there, but for a year it had been her home, and sometimes it wasn’t that bad. Kate was like the sister she never had. Bull was the gentle giant who entertained the residents with his guitar and songs of the old west. She would miss Isaac too, and hoped that like her, he would be accepted at a better place, maybe a place similar to where she was going.
    She hoped that she was making the right move. She hoped Green Clover Academy was the answer to all her problems.  But she worried what it would be like, living with fifty other girls who cried all the time. It wasn’t her idea of relaxation, but at least she wouldn’t be ridiculed, or stared at, as if she were some unsolvable puzzle. And perhaps she’d meet a guy who didn’t care that she saw dead people.
    Who knows? Anything seemed possible now.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    So…There Really is a Curse
     
     
    Eva feared that when she entered the airport, alarms would blare, and a loud warning would be issued: “ALERT! ALERT! CRAZY GIRL WHO SEES DEAD PEOPLE APPROACHING! HER TEARS ARE ACID!”
    But no, that didn’t happen. She was sure the Miami-Dade International Airport had a no-fly list of people who had been committed, but apparently they didn’t get that memo, because soon her and Mr. Quinn were seated and buckled in a jumbo jet. Her travel bag was in the overhead compartment, and she wondered what kinds of clothes were inside, hoping they were the latest fashions—whatever that was these days.
    “How are you feeling? All right?” he asked, sitting next to her.
    Surprisingly, the plane was only half full, and they had several empty seats around them.
    She nodded. “Good.”
    He leaned over and whispered, “If a vision should come on, then I’ll do my best to help you through it.” He smiled. “We don’t want to get thrown off the plane now, do we?” he joked.
    “Oh…yeah…right.” She hadn’t thought of her visions since the last one, the day before her birthday, only two days ago. “But I can’t help it. What if I have one and I can’t stop crying? What will they do?” 
    She reached up and peeked above the seat in front of her at the flight attendant, a young man with a thin brown mustache, who seemed to be giving everyone a hard stare. Suddenly, the plane felt much narrower than it already was, and