[ This isn't going to stop Marie from quite promptly adopting the brood of teenagers as her own. She had a very strong latent mama bear sense that could not be tamed. ]
Home, huh?
[ Poor kid. This was serious, and here this girl was just doing her best to hang in there. As for hanging in there, Marie was only doing that by sheer stubbornness. Walking, it turned out, was hard when your knees wanted to lock and your feet didn't always seem to want to bring you forward in a relatively straight line. ]
I'm sure you're doing great. Ah, I didn't catch your name. Mine is Marie.
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Home, huh?
[ Poor kid. This was serious, and here this girl was just doing her best to hang in there. As for hanging in there, Marie was only doing that by sheer stubbornness. Walking, it turned out, was hard when your knees wanted to lock and your feet didn't always seem to want to bring you forward in a relatively straight line. ]
I'm sure you're doing great. Ah, I didn't catch your name. Mine is Marie.