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<p>Charlie Foxtrot was a fairly normal, if not quite ordinary, fourteen year old girl. She had a single mother, it was true, who did Something Mysterious for work. She got bullied in school, the way you did when you had a single mother in 1969. She adored junk food and the space program and stuffed animals, in no particular order.</p> <p>Okay, maybe a little weird. But normal, right?</p> <p>One day, as the Apollo 4 disaster unfolded thousands of miles away, Charlie slept, and Charlie dreamed. When Charlie woke, her favorite stuffed bear had some grave news for her: she wasn't a magical girl, yet. But she would be, when the time came. Until then she had to fight for her dreams -- but even in her dreams, she was not alone.</p> <p>Charlie Foxtrot was little more than a story she told herself, it seemed. But she would be damned if she didn't make it a good one.</p> <p>Yep. Situation normal.</p>
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