![]() Michael’s science teacher begins discussing evolution, and Michael wonders if people really came from apes. Michael also meets Mina, a home-schooled neighbor girl, who is fascinated with birds and the poet William Blake. As Michael helps him, Michael places his hands on the man’s shoulder blades, and they feel odd to him. Though the man considers 27 and 53 - along with brown ale - the food and nectar of the gods, he also eats spiders and other dead bugs. ![]() The man asks for aspirin for his arthritis and for 27 and 53, which Michael learns are items on a Chinese take-out menu. As Michael rummages through the crumbling, junk-ridden garage, he discovers a gaunt, grumpy man living there. ![]() ![]() Ten-year-old Michael and his family move into a dilapidated house about the same time Michael’s sister is born with a heart defect. ![]()
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