After leaving Mr. Perry's, we went down Maple Street and dropped off a paper at Hardy's Flower Shop. Across the street from there lived the Warners, a family with four girls who had recently moved from a potato farm in Aroostook County to Doughty Falls. All the girls wore their hair cut short, and their stocky, muscular bodies were covered in identical pairs of faded overalls. Timmy warned me about the Warner girls--one time, he said, they had been waiting for him as he came out of the flower shop, and had knocked him off his bicycle and pinned him down in their front yard. They then took turns kissing him while the others held him down. After they had all kissed him, they let him up, shook his hand, and thanked him, saying that they just wanted to know what it was like to kiss a boy. Timmy said that ever since that horrifying experience he always looked twice before he left the flower shop.
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