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home. Subsidized housing. A palace.”
    People clap and cheer. Some look toward Clem, who looks freaked out. But he manages to give me a thumbs-up.
    â€œWhat happened, basically, is my family wobbled. That’s what we did. But everything wobbles, the Earth in its orbit and a skylark on the wind. How else do you get back to the truth?”
    I wait a second, then start singhollering my latest performance piece.
    The street is a vein, a seam, a stain
    between you and me, the street
    is an asphalt river. I took a long
    Â Â Â Â Â  swim there.
    With my mother and my brother.
    We would not let each other drown.
    No. We let each other swim there.
    No coins in our pockets to weigh us
    Â Â Â Â Â  down
    and our lungs and hearts filled with
    hope. And when hope failed, with faith
    that the street would do what it was
    Â Â Â Â Â  meant to do,
    deliver us whole and untroubled,
    Â Â Â Â Â  somewhere new.
    Let me start at the beginning.
    Â Â Â Â Â  We were living
    in the Buick Skylark and Mom still
    Â Â Â Â Â  managed to look
    like a million bucks every day…
    I don’t care whether people clap when I am through. I don’t care if I win the finals or not. All I care about is that I’ve found home.

Sara Cassidy has lived in a logging camp, a five-by-seven-foot survival shelter in the Manitoba bush, a refugee camp (as an international witness), an apartment over a downtown biker bar, in youth hostels in Canada and Scotland as well as in large, comfortable houses. In every place, she had a pen and a journal to help steer her way through. Skylark is her fifth book for youth.