“John, Ida’s brother, thought she was too young to go alone. She wasn’t even big enough yet to help with the spring sheep run, an annul event at which the sheep were driven into a corral to be shorn.”
‘Yeah. Because Lisa reckons we’re all too young to come to her party, we’re all going to show her. We all have to dye our hair, really bright colours. Pink and green and orange. Sonya and Tanya reckon you get this stuff at the chemist. It just washes out all right.”