"and october. the boy will be 18. maybe he'll pick out his own name by then, since his da and mum were too lazy".

And what did people call him? "Thing"?

"(she said unto me: 'the boy doesn't need it in dumb old Indiana.')".

Anacita's good judgment; but she didn't learn the tenses of the verb to say. You're right: her parents were very sloppy!

" and the kites. she wants to give the dragon one to Nathaniel Killgore, cuz the dragon is on his family crest. what a thoughtful granddaughter you have".

What is a ghost person going to do with kites?