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10 - Hard Lessons

Sometimes, people don't live forever.      In the Spring of Porcelain's Junior year, she learned a very hard lesson. Death would visit her family, and leave with her grandfather. Her large family was closely knit, kept in touch, always came home for holidays, etc. There were many in town at any given moment leading up to her grandfather's death. Porcelain loved having more family around ... but not for this reason. Backtracking a bit.      Porcelain and her cousins would hang out every afternoon that month. She was closer to her family than she was to others, aside from the friends she had made at school. She had gone to every dance in her Junior year and joined the art and debate clubs. It seemed as if her shyness had all but disappeared, since she had quite the social life now! Porcelain, her sister, and their friends would often hang out on the weekends, their cousins joining when they were in town. They would drive up and down Main Street blarin...