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Sylvie glides effortlessly into ever more erratic behavior. She spends mesmerized hours staring into the lake that claimed her father and sister. She studies the local freightyard and checks on the hobos and transients riding through. The girls find her one day asleep on a bench near the center of town, a newspaper propped over her face. At home she falls into long silences, plays solitaire during the day and comes alive at night, keeping the lights out and letting the darkness in: "Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin...
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