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8-year-old Trixie Travis Brown kicks open the door of her family's farmhouse and steps out carefully onto the deck.

Her parents are lounging on a picnic blanket in the yard, and her brother's busy throwing rocks in an old tin can balanced on a fence post.

Trixie pours lemonade into four glasses and offers one to her father.

He accepts it with a smile.

But before Trixie takes a drink

herself, she joins in her brother's game. She grabs a rock from the ground and hits the can

with her first throat. Trixie's mother and father applaud as Trixie lifts her glass and takes

a triumphant gulp of lemonade. It's a small moment of triumph and good cheer,

one the family needs right now. For the last few years, times have been tough in America. The country's

been hit hard by the Great Depression, and so too the Brown family. Paint is peeling off the

farmhouse, Trixie's clothes or threadbare, and her brother has to make do with rocks and old cans instead

of a baseball and bat. But today, the sun is shining. Trixie and her brother have finished their chores,

and her parents have fed the animals. They're able to spend some precious family time together

before dusk settles across the plains. But as Trrixie puts down her glass and picks up another rock,

a huge mass of birds flies overhead.

There are hundreds of ducks and geese all heading south.

The family get to their feet and stare.

It's April.

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