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October of 1982 has arrived in a flurry of rainstorms, and with it, a twelth birthday for the Emily twins. Michael still feels like he’s stuck five months behind.
A year later, nothing is the same: from the grief to the new grade to the not-quite-the-same friends he had to fall back on. But it’s all fine. Everything is working out spectacularly, and Michael has a feeling that 1983 will be the year that everyone remembers.
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In other words, two different falls with the same boy in two very different places; accompanied by rowdy preteens, strained families, and the tick-tock of Death’s clock as it swings between two very different years.