Jackie woke up Monday morning and stood in front of the mirror and brushed out her hair, waiting for Sarah to come. She hoped Sarah would come quickly before she had to leave for school. She put down her brush and looked in the mirror again, just in time to see Sarah apear, smiling, in the mirror. Jackie grinned back. "Come on out, Sarah."

Sarah came out of the mirror quickly and stood in front of her. "Good morning, Jackie."

"Good morning, Sarah."

"Weather away so fast, Jackie?"

"Actually, that's what I wanted toi tell you, I'm on my way to school."

"To school?" Sarah asked surprised. "You mean girls now can go to school?"

"Yes, all children go to school five days a week."

"For how long Jackie?"

"Oh, till High School.until we turn about eighteen."

"For that long? When do you start to earn a trade?"

"Well, it depends. For some people they get jobs after high school. For others, they continue to go to a special school called college. That lasts about four more years."

"Mercy! What do you learn there besides how to read and write?"

"Well, we learn quite a lot of things. But I have to go or I'll be late for class. I just wanted to tell you that I'll come back around three o'clock. Then I promise I'll come right back up here. I think I'll invite Matt and Inez up here too and we can all sit down and talk together, the four of us. We vcan tell you about our school abnd you can tell us some more about the stories you wrote for the paper."

"All right. But I shall just be invisible and stay here in the meantime. This is such a beautiful place, you don't mind if I look around do you?"

"Oh no, not at all," Jackie said.

"Jackie? The bus is coming," her mother called out. "You better get going or you'll miss it."

"OK, MOM. I'll come back at three, I promise." Sarah nodded and disappeared. Jackie knew she was invisible. Jackie raced down the stairs and gave her mother a goodbye kiss. Her mother handed her her lunch.

"Bye, Baby. Have a good day at school."

"Bye, Mom, see you at three. Can Matt and Inez come over after school?"

"Sure, Honey."



Later that day, at school, Matt, Inez, and Jackie were sitting in the lunchroom at their usual table. Near the exit door, but far enough away so they didn't freeze in the winter and get too hot in the summer.

"I like Sarah a lot," Inez said happily. "She's so nice."

"Yeah, I doi too," Matt agreed. "Can you imagine the many things we can al learn from her? It's amazing to think about."

"You guys wanna come over after school? Mom said it was alright, and we can talk to Sarah some more than."

"Sounds really cool to me."

"Yeah, me too."

"She souned really interested when I was telling her about school and about al we learn in class."

"Well, I bet she did," Inez pointed out. "In the late seventeen hundreds hardly anyone actually went to school in another building. Many people, especially the poor people, couldn't even read or write. Only the educated people were taught, usually my family members, how to read and write and add and subtract. But that would basically be it as far as the teaching went. We probably impress her with all our knowledge. Of course, so many things have been discovered between her time and ours, so there's a lot more to learn."

"Yeah, we should tell her all about our day today!" Matt said.

"I think I'll tell her about my day every day and she can tell us a lot more about her time period every day."

"Matt, you met Sarah now, right?"

"Yeah, Inez. And yes, I did apologise for not believeing in her before."

"Yeah, I did as well," Inez said quickly. "We're lucky she was so understanding. Anyway, Jackie, did you say your twenty Hail Mary's these past two days?"

"Yeah, did you?"

"Yeah."

"So let's see, altogether, we got about 120 prayers said so far."

"How many prayers does Sarah need to get into Heaven?"

"You need 10,000 prayers, but Sarah already had 4,560 prayers already said before she died."

"I could say prayers for her as well," Matt said. "She's my new friend too, let me help her."

"Great, Matt, if YOU say 20 Hail Marys every night for her as well, she could get to Heaven a lot faster."

"Sounds good to me."

"Me, too. Let;s all do it."



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