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He was standing there all red-faced, screaming and waving his arms around. empezar lección
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He skidded to a stop and smiled right at me. empezar lección
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And that dog came trotting over to me just like he had been doing it his whole life. empezar lección
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He was big, but skinny; you could see his ribs. empezar lección
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And there were bald patches all over him, places where he didn’t have any fur at all. empezar lección
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He smiled so big that it made him sneeze. empezar lección
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And I have to admit, he stank. empezar lección
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He was kind of limping like something was wrong with one of his legs. empezar lección
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Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world. empezar lección
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Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world. empezar lección
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I went to the trailer door and I hollered, “Winn-Dixie!” empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie’s ears shot up in the air and he grinned and sneezed, and then he came limping up the steps and into the trailer and put his head right in the preacher’s lap, right on top of a pile of papers. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie’s ears shot up in the air and he grinned and sneezed, and then he came limping up the steps and into the trailer and put his head right in the preacher’s lap, right on top of a pile of papers. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie’s ears shot up in the air and he grinned and sneezed, and then he came limping up the steps and into the trailer and put his head right in the preacher’s lap, right on top of a pile of papers. empezar lección
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He looked at his ribs and his matted-up fur and the places where he was bald. empezar lección
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He looked at his ribs and his matted-up fur and the places where he was bald. empezar lección
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He pulled back his lips and showed the preacher all of his crooked yellow teeth and wagged his tail and knocked some of the preacher’s papers off the table. empezar lección
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He was making him poke his head out of his shell. empezar lección
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“Well,” said the preacher, “he’s a stray if ever I’ve seen one.” empezar lección
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He put down his pencil and scratched Winn-Dixie behind the ears. empezar lección
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I used the garden hose and some baby shampoo. empezar lección
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He looked insulted and the whole time he didn’t show me his teeth or wag his tail once. empezar lección
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I nodded my head at him and went on talking. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie twitched his ears and raised his eyebrows. empezar lección
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He was working on a sermon and kind of muttering to himself. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie looked up at the preacher and kind of gave him a nudge with his nose. empezar lección
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“She had red hair and freckles.” empezar lección
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She could stick a tyre in the ground and grow a car.” empezar lección
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She could stick a tyre in the ground and grow a car.” empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie started chewing on his paw, and I tapped him on the head to make him stop. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie started chewing on his paw, and I tapped him on the head to make him stop. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie started chewing on his paw, and I tapped him on the head to make him stop. empezar lección
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She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. empezar lección
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She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. empezar lección
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She said it made her feel like a bug under a microscope.” empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie hopped off, too. empezar lección
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If me and the preacher went off and left him by himself in the trailer, he pulled all the cushions off the couch and all the toilet paper off the roll. empezar lección
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The other thing about the Open Arms that is different from other churches is there aren’t any pews. empezar lección
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“Arrruiiiiipppp,” wailed Winn-Dixie. empezar lección
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One minute everything was quiet and serious and the preacher was going on and on and on; the next minute Winn-Dixie looked like a furry bullet shooting across the building, chasing that mouse. empezar lección
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One minute everything was quiet and serious and the preacher was going on and on and on; the next minute Winn-Dixie looked like a furry bullet shooting across the building, chasing that mouse. empezar lección
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He was barking and his feet were skidding all over the polished Pick-It-Quick floor, and people were clapping and hollering and pointing. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie stood up there in front of the whole church, wagging his tail and holding the mouse real careful in his mouth, holding on to him tight but not squishing him. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie stood up there in front of the whole church, wagging his tail and holding the mouse real careful in his mouth, holding on to him tight but not squishing him. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie stood up there in front of the whole church, wagging his tail and holding the mouse real careful in his mouth, holding on to him tight but not squishing him. empezar lección
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And there weren’t that many kids at the Open Arms, just Dunlap and Stevie Dewberry, two brothers who weren’t twins but looked like they were. empezar lección
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And Amanda Wilkinson, whose face was always pinched up like she was smelling something real bad; and Sweetie Pie Thomas, who was only five years old and still mostly a baby. empezar lección
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This is what happened: I was picking out my books and kind of humming to myself, and all of a sudden there was this loud and scary scream. empezar lección
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Chapter Seven “Back when Florida was wild, when it consisted of nothing but palmetto trees and mosquitoes so big they could fly away with you,” Miss Franny Block started in, “and I was just a little girl no bigger than you, my father, Herman W. empezar lección
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Chapter Seven “Back when Florida was wild, when it consisted of nothing but palmetto trees and mosquitoes so big they could fly away with you,” Miss Franny Block started in, “and I was just a little girl no bigger than you, my father, Herman W. empezar lección
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“I don’t want to appear prideful,” she said, “but my daddy was a very rich man. empezar lección
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She nodded and then leaned back and said, “And I was a little girl who loved to read. empezar lección
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I raised it up slowly and then I aimed it carefully and I threw it right at that bear and screamed, ‘Be gone!’ empezar lección
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Well, the men in town used to tease me about it. empezar lección
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And you could tell that he was proud of looking so good, proud of not looking like a stray. empezar lección
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I thought what he needed most was a collar and a leash, so I went into Gertrude’s Pets, where there were fish and snakes and mice and lizards and gerbils and pet supplies, and I found a real handsome red leather collar with a matching leash. empezar lección
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But I love this collar and leash, and so does my dog, and I was thinking that maybe you could set me up on an instalment plan.” empezar lección
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On the way out of Gertrude’s Pets, I said to Winn-Dixie, “You are better at making friends than anybody I have ever known. empezar lección
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I bet if my mama knew you, she would think you were the best dog ever.” empezar lección
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She was standing there, sucking on the knuckle of her third finger, staring in the window of Gertrude’s Pets. empezar lección
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She had her hair tied up in a ponytail with a pink ribbon. empezar lección
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She says if I’m real good, I might get to buy me a goldfish or one of them gerbils. empezar lección
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“The witch will eat that dog,” Stevie said. empezar lección
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I got off my bike and went up to the gate and hollered, “Winn-Dixie, you better come on out of there.” empezar lección
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“Get lost, you bald-headed babies,” I said. empezar lección
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“Get lost, you bald-headed babies,” I said. empezar lección
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I went around a really big tree all covered in moss, and there was Winn-Dixie. empezar lección
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She was old with crinkly brown skin. empezar lección
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“Go on and sit down,” she said, pointing at a lawn chair with the back all busted out of it. empezar lección
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“Like maybe you got her green thumb. empezar lección
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“Could be that you got more of your mama in you than just red hair and freckles and running fast.” empezar lección
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He had peanut butter in his whiskers, and he kept yawning and stretching. empezar lección
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He had peanut butter in his whiskers, and he kept yawning and stretching. empezar lección
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When I was done talking, the preacher kissed me good night, and then he leaned way over and gave Winn-Dixie a kiss, too, right on top of his head. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie was already at the other end of the trailer, in the preacher’s room. empezar lección
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There were rabbits and hamsters and gerbils and mice and birds and lizards and snakes, and they were all just sitting there on the floor like they had turned to stone, and Otis was standing in the middle of them. empezar lección
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He walked over to the counter and started digging through a pile of things, and finally he came up with a broom. empezar lección
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“Did they escape from their cages?” empezar lección
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She stood there and sucked on her knuckle and stared at me. empezar lección
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That’s my mama on the porch. empezar lección
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Sometimes Sweetie Pie snuck in for the concert, too. empezar lección
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One time Stevie said to me, “My mama says you shouldn’t be spending all your time cooped up in that pet shop and at that library, sitting around talking with old ladies. empezar lección
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“Otis is not retarded,” I said. empezar lección
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“I think they are just trying to make friends with you in a roundabout way,” Gloria said. empezar lección
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Or I imitated Otis tapping his pointy-toed boots and playing for all the animals, and that always made her laugh. empezar lección
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Or I imitated Otis tapping his pointy-toed boots and playing for all the animals, and that always made her laugh. empezar lección
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Or I imitated Otis tapping his pointy-toed boots and playing for all the animals, and that always made her laugh. empezar lección
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There were whiskey bottles and beer bottles and wine bottles all tied on with string, and some of them were clanking against each other and making a spooky kind of noise. empezar lección
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Me and Winn-Dixie stood and stared at the tree, and the hair on top of his head rose up a little bit and he growled deep in his throat. empezar lección
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“And them Dewberry boys, you try not to judge them too harsh either, all right?” empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie nudged me with his wet nose and wagged his tail; when he saw I wasn’t going, he trotted after Gloria. empezar lección
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I wondered if my mama, wherever she was, had a tree full of bottles; and I wondered if I was a ghost to her, the same way she sometimes seemed like a ghost to me. empezar lección
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I worried about him hogging the fan, and I worried about the fan blowing him bald; but Miss Franny said not to worry about either thing, that Winn-Dixie could hog the fan if he wanted and she had never in her life seen a dog made bald by a fan. empezar lección
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I worried about him hogging the fan, and I worried about the fan blowing him bald; but Miss Franny said not to worry about either thing, that Winn-Dixie could hog the fan if he wanted and she had never in her life seen a dog made bald by a fan. empezar lección
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I worried about him hogging the fan, and I worried about the fan blowing him bald; but Miss Franny said not to worry about either thing, that Winn-Dixie could hog the fan if he wanted and she had never in her life seen a dog made bald by a fan. empezar lección
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And when Miss Franny stopped shaking and started talking again, Winn-Dixie would lick her hand and lie back down in front of the fan. empezar lección
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Whenever Miss Franny had one of her fits, it reminded me of Winn-Dixie in a thunderstorm. empezar lección
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And I got real good at holding on to Winn-Dixie whenever they came. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie yawned real big and lay down on his side with a thump and a sigh. empezar lección
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Block was just a boy when the firing on Fort Sumter occurred,” Miss Franny Block said as she started in on her story. empezar lección
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“Hell is a cuss word,” said Amanda. empezar lección
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And he was covered with all manner of vermin: fleas and lice. empezar lección
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And he was covered with all manner of vermin: fleas and lice. empezar lección
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And he was covered with all manner of vermin: fleas and lice. empezar lección
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And the only thing that made Littmus forget that he was hungry and itchy and hot or cold was that he was getting shot at. empezar lección
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When he finally finished crying, he had the strangest sensation. empezar lección
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“Sorrow,” Miss Franny said. empezar lección
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She leaned back in her chair and crossed her hands on her stomach. empezar lección
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“It has a peculiar flavour...” “Root beer?” empezar lección
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He was hunching up his shoulders and lowering his chin and getting ready to pull his head inside his shell. empezar lección
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“It tastes sad,” he said, and sighed. empezar lección
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But he calls Gloria Dump a witch all the time, and he calls Otis retarded. empezar lección
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“Other people’s tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation. empezar lección
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He patted Winn-Dixie on the head and got up and turned off the light and closed the door. empezar lección
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“Gertrude,” Gertrude squawked. empezar lección
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She picked up the Littmus Lozenge wrapper in her beak and then dropped it and looked around. empezar lección
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“It was on account of the music,” he said. empezar lección
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Gloria wiped her eyes with the hem of her dress. empezar lección
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“That’s why Amanda is so pinch-faced,” I said. empezar lección
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Winn-Dixie’s head shot up from underneath Gloria’s chair. empezar lección
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She stuck her knuckle in her mouth and then pulled it back out. empezar lección
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She wrapped her arms around Winn-Dixie and squeezed him so hard that his eyes almost popped out of his head. empezar lección
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Chapter Twenty-One After I got Otis convinced to come, the rest of getting ready for the party was easy and fun. empezar lección
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We cut them up in triangles and cut off the crusts and put little toothpicks with frilly tops in them. empezar lección
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We cut them up in triangles and cut off the crusts and put little toothpicks with frilly tops in them. empezar lección
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We cut them up in triangles and cut off the crusts and put little toothpicks with frilly tops in them. empezar lección
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She was wearing a pretty green dress that was all shiny and shimmery. empezar lección
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Even when she was standing still, she still kind of swayed, like she was standing on a boat. empezar lección
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Even when she was standing still, she still kind of swayed, like she was standing on a boat. empezar lección
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And the whole time Winn-Dixie was standing right in the middle of everybody, wagging his tail so hard that I thought for sure he would knock Miss Franny right off her high heels. empezar lección
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“Otis,” I hollered at him over the rain, “come on, we’re going inside.” empezar lección
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She waved around her wad of magazine pages. empezar lección
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And then he whistled loud and long. empezar lección
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And after I convinced these Dewberry boys that I ain’t no scary witch all full of spells and potions—” “She ain’t no witch,” Stevie said. empezar lección
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And if he don’t know it, he can pick it up right quick if you hum it to him. empezar lección
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So we looked around, wondering who did, thinking that maybe we got us a burglar in the house. empezar lección
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“You hum it,” said Miss Franny, nodding her head, “and he can play it.” empezar lección
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I went up on the porch and took hold of her hand and pulled on her. empezar lección
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I cannot speak to the soporific powers of pickle juice, but I do know about the comforting power of words. empezar lección
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Because of Winn-Dixie was my first book, and suddenly I was on the receiving end of a tremendous – an astonishing, an overwhelming – amount of love. empezar lección
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The Dewberry boys use a derogatory word about Otis and another derogatory word about Gloria Dump. empezar lección
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