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Sammy Aandeg is Lillian’s cousin who went to a residential school at the same time she did. He is trapped at the school for many more years than Lillian, and the abuse he suffered there leaves him traumatized well into adulthood. He speaks exclusively in Anishnawbe, keeping the language alive and spiting the teachers who forced him to speak English. He also speaks in iambic pentameter, the poetic meter that Shakespeare used, as a form of revenge against a racist teacher who loved Shakespeare and didn’t believe that his plays should be tainted by the “uncivilized” Anishnawbe language. Sammy hosts John at his house because John can speak Anishnawbe, though Sammy knows something is off about John and refers to him as “Caliban,” an allusion to the monster in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
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Chapter 1
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Those with darker skin who were not yet adults and free of this mandatory education called it the Angry Place. Still, she put up with it. It had taken a long time to get here and she instinctively knew it would take her a much longer time to get home. Wherever that was––she had no idea if it was north, south, east or west. It was just far away. As soon as she arrived, she was told stories of one of the girls trying to run away. She wasn’t the type to break the rules like that. Instead, she decided to deal with the present by concentrating on the past and the future: remembering the family she had just left, and imagining the family that she would someday have.
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Chapter 21
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Time travel was not a thing of wonder, of amazement and opportunity. It was an inescapable and soul-wrenching reality: a curse. Luckily, every morning when he woke up, it was rare that he’d remember the images of the preceding night. The only evidence of his time travel were the sweat-soaked sheets, occasionally wet with urine, and his sore gums from grinding non-existent teeth. For decades those nights had caused him to grind his teeth, until there was little left and they had to be removed.
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Chapter 1
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Those with darker skin who were not yet adults and free of this mandatory education called it the Angry Place. Still, she put up with it. It had taken a long time to get here and she instinctively knew it would take her a much longer time to get home. Wherever that was––she had no idea if it was north, south, east or west. It was just far away. As soon as she arrived, she was told stories of one of the girls trying to run away. She wasn’t the type to break the rules like that. Instead, she decided to deal with the present by concentrating on the past and the future: remembering the family she had just left, and imagining the family that she would someday have.
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Chapter 21
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Time travel was not a thing of wonder, of amazement and opportunity. It was an inescapable and soul-wrenching reality: a curse. Luckily, every morning when he woke up, it was rare that he’d remember the images of the preceding night. The only evidence of his time travel were the sweat-soaked sheets, occasionally wet with urine, and his sore gums from grinding non-existent teeth. For decades those nights had caused him to grind his teeth, until there was little left and they had to be removed.
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