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“I work in a toilet museum,” he said, bracing himself for the inevitable. 

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A world exists as close as your next breath,
Where a baby’s cries are met with tired laughter and
Hushed lullaby mumbles.
Where every step glitters with magic, and
The rising sun surprises a forest
With saffron pools of delight.
Our necessary work is
Mending and building and lifting and
Joining and healing, and
At the end of the day,
My strong body smells of
Honest sweat.
You laugh, and tell me to take a shower, and
When I emerge, new-minted, glistening in the
Comfortable kitchen light,
You

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Ola decided to fly the same year her father quit his job to become a ventriloquist. Since she was born, ten years ago, Ola’s family had lived in an enormous Victorian house with floors that creaked and groaned like an old woman moaning over her aching joints.

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There’s a Goosebumps book called How to Kill a Monster. I want to say I was 7 or 8 when I read it, but I can still tell you all about it. Two siblings are staying at their grandparents’ place in the middle of a swamp, and in the attic, they find a monster. Naturally, gram and gramps are nowhere to be found for the rest of the book.

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