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•Jonas's Father brings home the sick baby, Gabriel, who Lily remarks has "funny eyes" just like Jonas.
•"Funny" turns out to mean "light-colored"; almost everyone is the community has dark eyes, except for a very few, like Jonas and Gabe. Jonas knows that it's rude to point out when people are different. Looks like Lily doesn't. She wonders aloud if maybe Gabe and Jonas had the same birth mother.
•Jonas's Father puts away his bicycle, and we're now pretty sure that there are no cars in this community. Just bikes.
•Jonas ponders that light eyes make a person look as though he has "depth."
•Lily thinks Gabe is just so adorable she could eat him up; she says she wishes she could be a Birthmother.
•From her Mother's reaction,

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