"Raising Samuel" scene: Chernobyl

Note: In the first scene of the novel, we learn that for years, Meg (the mother) and her older brother Larry refer to particularly vivid sunsets as "a Chernobyl sky." From the time he was a preschooler, Sam parrots them, hearing it as "sure noble sky," which makes perfect sense. In the scene below, he's 10.

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