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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.

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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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Another Beyond Caper Conscious Crackle Jade never Self Smile
I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Best Entangle Flypaper Like People
They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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Birth Daughter Face Farmer Name Summon Unknown Young
And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Accustomed Ago Become Being Call Dam Long

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