NeoTroi79, almost every book that's required in AP lit tends to be engrossing for a while and then...exceedingly annoying. It is very depressing.
Another childhood Addison, this time based on something in real life. Insane, I know.
Birthday
There's a cake sitting on the counter in a white cardboard box. Addison is picked up, resting on her mother's hip, and she admires the cake, not quite sure what it is.
It's really a beautiful cake, coffee, with butter cream icing and puffs of whipped cream around the edges. A chocolate bean is settled on each puff, and it's Addison's first taste of chocolate in her life, an epiphany, Helen Keller signing "water."
She laughs in delight, not knowing that this birthday would be her first memory.
Reference: Helen Keller's famous water thingy...part of her autobiography, The Story of My Life.