I do too. Cell phones are fine, but like myrendal said, the landline doesn’t need to be charged, it;‘s always on and if I don’t want to answer, there’s the answering machine
it was H1N1, I looked it up, because there was that SARS outbreak (turns out that was 2008) in Asia and at the time, my neighbor was traveling back and forth for work.
Girls that age LOVE to braid someone else’s hair. My niece also went through the “can I braid your hair?” phase and I always said ‘yes’ because I knew it was fleeting. (my hair is past my waist, so there’s lots to braid!)
Opal has hobbies to occupy her time she probably just wants Earl to have something to do, too