Once the two astronauts had walked on the moon the excitement seemed to die down for everyone except JimmyTrotter, who listened to updates on his pocket radio and watched Apollo 11 news on our television set when Big Ma’s programs weren’t on. Soon everything would go back to normal. The astronauts would return to Earth to their families and we’d forget we were all earthlings. I thought it was funny when one of the astronauts called their space capsule a “happy home.” If that tight little spaceship was a happy home, then that astronaut’s real home must have been a sad one. A happy home had nothing to do with three men in a bubble eating sawdust food and watching pencils floating in the air. A happy home meant having everyone under one roof, sitting around the table, eating a peach cobbler or pecan pie. I thought about Pa and Mrs. Then I thought about the baby. Having a little brother wouldn’t be so bad. Or maybe another sister. Uncle Darnell came in that morning from having worked an all-night shift.
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