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1. What is Sophia like?

Sophia is eight, but she still looks like she is six. Sophia is tiny all over from her waist to her wrists. Sometimes she acts like a kindergartener. She keeps a row of stuffed animals on the foot of her bed. She likes to play pretend that she is a world-famous ballerina. Her mother babies her.

2. In "August," how have Alyona and Sophia spent their summer vacation?

Alyona and Sophia have spent their summer vacation alone together. Alyona taught Sophia how to do a back walkover in the parking lot behind their building. In July, they took the bus to the municipal zoo. Some days their mother left money in the morning before work, and they would go to the cinema and split a banana and chocolate crepe afterward. Most days, though, they hung around the city watching the rain clouds gather and the sunlight stretch out.

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