The Almanac of Leaving

A family almanac, kept for six generations, predicts weather, harvests — and the exact year each family member will leave home for good. The seventh generation is the first to ask why anyone kept score.

The almanac said Junie would leave in her twenty-third year, same page, same faded ink as it said for her mother and her mother’s mother, and for the first time in six generations somebody sat down and asked the almanac how it knew.

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