Respuesta :
Answer: C. be gone for a long time.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from Dwight Okita's "In Response to Executive Order 9066" we can see the description of how the narrator gives Denise a packet of tomato seeds for her to plant them, and she told her that when the first tomato ripened she would miss her. This information expresses that the narrator assumes that she will be gone for a long time (because of the time that would take the tomato plant to grow).