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    The narrator describes the day her mother left for space. As reporters interviewed her mother in her space suit, the young narrator played with her mother's wedding ring and proudly showed a bookmark she made for her mother's journal. Feeling jealous of a gift from her mother's class, the narrator tries to clean a lint-covered Lifesaver candy to give to her mother before launch. When she is unable to say goodbye, the narrator holds out the Lifesaver, and her mother accepts it and puts it in her pocket, reassuring the child that all will be well.

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    The narrator describes the day her mother left for space. As reporters interviewed her mother in her space suit, the young narrator played with her mother's wedding ring and proudly showed a bookmark she made for her mother's journal. Feeling jealous of a gift from her mother's class, the narrator tries to clean a lint-covered Lifesaver candy to give to her mother before launch. When she is unable to say goodbye, the narrator holds out the Lifesaver, and her mother accepts it and puts it in her pocket, reassuring the child that all will be well.

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    Defying Gravity by Jane Anderson

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    The narrator describes the day her mother left for space. As reporters interviewed her mother in her space suit, the young narrator played with her mother's wedding ring and proudly showed a bookmark she made for her mother's journal. Feeling jealous of a gift from her mother's class, the narrator tries to clean a lint-covered Lifesaver candy to give to her mother before launch. When she is unable to say goodbye, the narrator holds out the Lifesaver, and her mother accepts it and puts it in her pocket, reassuring the child that all will be well.

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    DEFYING GRAVITY By Jane Anderson

    ELIZABETH: The day my mother actually left, a reporter asked me what I thought of my
    mother going into space. I didn’t want to answer so I hid my face behind my grandmother’s
    purse. My brother laughed at me so I hit him on the arm. My grandmother gave us Lifesavers to
    quiet us down. I told her I wanted cherry so she peeled the paper down until she found one for
    me. I put it in my pocket for later. Then my mother joined us and she let me hold her hand while
    she talked to the reporters. I played with her wedding ring and I was very proud that I was one of
    the few people who was allowed to touch her hand. She showed the reporters some of the things
    she was taking up to space. She had a journal and in the journal was a bookmark that I made for
    her. I had drawn a rocket and stars and Saturn with the rings and I ironed it between two pieces
    of wax paper so it would be protected from the gamma rays. Then she showed the reporters
    something her class had given her. I was jealous and I wanted to give her something else. So I
    took out the Lifesaver. It was fuzzy from the lining of my pocket.While my mother and the
    reporters talked, I tried to make the Lifesaver presentable. I told myself I had to pick all the lint
    off the Lifesaver or my mother wouldn’t come back.Finally my mother crouched down next to
    me. She was wearing her blue space suit. I touched the patches on her shoulders. She looked so
    beautiful. Suddenly I couldn’t grasp that this was the woman who every morning sliced banana
    on my granola. My grandmother kept saying, say good-bye, honey, say good-bye to your mother.
    But all I could manage to do was hold out the Lifesaver. My mother took it and put it in her
    pocket and I knew everything would be all right.

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