I was like in a taxi, going by, not even that slow. 'Oh, don't feel bad or anything, there's no way you'd have seen me. I recalled our previous day, but finding no memory of Josie, looked at her with surprise. Josie seemed pleased her adults weren't about to get out, and took one more step forward till her face was almost touching the window. Its door was as she'd left it, hanging open across the sidewalk, and there were two figures still in the back seat, talking and pointing to something beyond the pedestrian crossing. 'Wow.' She glanced over her shoulder - even this movement she made with caution - to the taxi from which she'd just emerged. I nodded again, and she shook her head as if very impressed. 'Really?' Josie said - though of course I didn't yet know that was her name. But now I'd been addressed, I was able to look directly at the child, return her smile and nod encouragingly. Rosa kept staring ahead at the RPO Building as she was supposed to do. Once she was close enough so all the pedestrians were passing behind her, she stopped and smiled at me.
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