Read the excerpt from A Girl Named Zippy.
The book that follows is about a child from Mooreland, Indiana, written by one of the three hundred. It's a memoir, and a sigh of gratitude, a way of returning. I no longer live there; I can't speak for the town or its people as they are now. Someone has taken my place. Whoever she is, her stories are her own.
Which word in the excerpt is the best clue that the story takes place in the past?
Mooreland
gratitude
town
memoir