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Chapter 1
My dad looks up at the sky.
Way over to the left there's this grey smudge.
'It's raining over there,' he says.
Way over to the right there's this grey smudge.
'It's raining over there too,' he says.
Up above there's nothing but blue sky and a fluffy white cloud that looks like a sheep but without any legs.
'You have to rain soon,' says my dad, shaking his fist at the sheep.
Our lawn is the colour of straw. My mum's rose bushes have died. And this big hairy spider lives inside the rain gauge that's nailed to the fence post.
'Is Chris out there?' yells my mum from inside the house.
'Sort of,' says my big brother Max.
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