Summary Of The Last Whirligig

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Brent creates his final whirligig in Maine. He stays at a campground and meets a woman who was painting there. After setting up camp, Brent began on the last whirligig. The biggest one yet, a pinwheel with lots of colors and made to look like Lea. He decides to take the whirligig up to the painters' house, a place where Lea would not be swallowed up by anything. Brent shares the reason he was building the whirligigs with the painter and she shares how she believes that Brent is really a good person, who happened to make a bad decision. He moves on from the campsite and wondered what to do next. Maybe to go visit other states or maybe even try to make a whirligig in each state. The painter's words create a big influence on Brent. It really makes

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