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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille

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Plastic. It's Like a Stainless Steel Gate

It's got like a brushed metal gate with a sort of jazzy atomic age pattern on the buzzer. She will turn the fountain on and then conveniently the tap is right by the Buzzer. And when she turns the tap on, there's this... It's a brushed metallic fish, head going up like some sort of, you know, sardine in a star-gazy pie,. Then it squirts out its mouth water that has been dyed blue. The same typography is used also on the school. Which has school in English. And also the restaurant they go to. But for an important visitor, she wants it to be on. Yes.

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