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Poppy: “Hi! Merlot said you wanted to see me?”

Lacey: “Hi, love! I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. This is Eloise Spark. She has several children around your age who you’ll be meeting when you start school in a few days.”

Poppy: “Hello, I’m Poppy Echo.”

Eloise: “Hello, Poppy Echo! It’s so nice to meet you!”

Poppy: “You can just call me Poppy. My last name is Aviary right now, but Mrs. Pinot Noir says I’m going to become a Pinot Noir one day too!”

Eloise: “Wow! That sounds pretty cool!”

Lacey: “The little girl’s name is Poppy Echo Aviary.”

Eloise: “Oh, yeah! I heard about her on the news!”

Lacey: “Yes, that’s our Poppy! What the news didn’t report was that she was found napping on a bench in the nearby park a few weeks ago. The news broadcast was done in hopes that a relative might come forward to claim her, but no one ever even called. The authorities asked Poppy numerous times where she came from, but the poor dear is just as confused. She said that her last family was moving to Windenburg, but it seems as though they just dumped her at the park instead.”

Eloise: “What do you mean by ‘last family’?”

Lacey: “Apparently she’s been in and out of several homes. She told me she has a brother, Alexander, but they were separated several years ago. She’s also not sure what has happened to her parents. They were also suddenly separated when she was very young.”

Eloise: “Oh no! How heart breaking!”

Lace: “We’ve kind of…adopted someone.”

Eloise: “Wait, what?”

Lace: “A close friend of ours, a local police officer, informed us that a little girl was in need of a new home. We had always wished we had more children, but somehow the timing never seemed right. Merlot and I aren’t getting any younger, but we thought maybe we should share our home with an older child in need of a family.”

Merlot: “Just thinking about what that little girl went through makes my blood boil! How could someone just abandon a child like that?”

Lace: “Love, why don’t you go get her and then brew us some Calming Chamomile? I have a feeling we all might end up frazzled after I finish telling Elo what happened.”