![]() ![]() In it is a beautiful silver seahorse pendent on a black silk cord. ![]() After prevaricating for hours, Minerva finally opens the package. The sender’s initials are K.C., the same initials as Minerva’s father, who left when Minerva was two and who has been absent from her life ever since. Minerva is leaving the house, wearing the sweater, when the FedEx guy brings her a package. She tells her mother what she wants, and her mother gives her what she, her mother, wants to give her. ![]() This is how it is with Minerva and her mother. It is a sweater that Minerva does not like. On Minerva’s birthday morning the decorations are there, the cinnamon roll with a candle in it is there, the birthday song is sung, and the gift Minerva’s mother gives her is not a ukulele. She wants a ukulele for her sixteenth birthday in fact she wants a ukulele so much that it is driving her crazy. Minerva, with her friend Fin’s help, has been giving her mother hints for months. ![]()
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