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Day 40, Monday, September 29
Breakfast: Oatmeal with raisins, sliced pears, walnuts.
Lunch: Lentil and barley soup leftover from last night (kept it hot in my thermos). (I know hominins didn’t have thermoses, but I can’t eat that stuff cold. Gag-reflex exception.) Also banana and water.
This morning at breakfast Peter asked me if he could start walking with me to school.
“Okay, I guess, but why?” I asked. “Wouldn’t you rather just get a ride with Dad?”
“Nah, I want to walk with you.”
How sweet! But it was still my duty to talk him out of it. “I have to leave a lot earlier than you would. You’d get there about half an hour ahead of the bell.”
“That’s okay,” he said. “Can I?”
How could I refuse?
We didn’t really say much for the first few blocks—my little brother’s not much of a
