“Jessie,” she said, but I was suddenly so incredibly terrified and embarrassed.I jumped up and raced from the kitchen. My eyes blurred, but I made it onto my bike, and then I pedaled back home as fast as I could.Mom let me stay home for the last two days of school when I told her I wasn’t feeling well. We already got our report cards on Monday, and we would be off to senior high after the summer anyway. Tracy kept texting me every hour or so, asking what was wrong, but I kept my answers short, panicked I might start rambling and give something away.Then it was Monday, the first real day of holidays. Tracy was on her way to her grandparents with her dad. I was a bit at a loss what to do.“Jessie?” Mom called up from the basement.“Yes, Mom?” I traipsed downstairs barefooted on the cold stairs.“Emma wants to borrow a few of my jam jars. I told her you’d bring them over.” She was holding the big woven basket with the handle, and it was filled with jars. “Jessie?” she asked when I froze.. ..”The others chuckled, and Matt chimed in, “My kin were in Hood’s Texas Brigade with the Army of Northern Virginia.”The three turned to Jonas. “Hey, no burning plantation homes for my ancestors. We were still running around southern Germany during the ‘War of Northern Aggression.’ We didn’t even get to Ellis Island until the 1880s, and then my great-great grandfather had the sense to immediately decamp for California!” He looked pointedly at Case. “Family lore says he got out one step ahead of being drafted into the Prussian army.“Great-great grandpa would probably be appalled that every generation of Kaufmanns since has served ... with varying levels of distinction,” he deadpanned.There were chuckles around the table.Mariam walked up and stood near Matt and Jo. She waited while Case commented on the paucity of Confederate brigades of any stripe in and around Savannah in December 1864.Finally, Matt looked at the teen and said, ‘What’s up?”She consulted her tablet. “I received a text.
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