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#415 - The Pod of Laughter and Forgetting and Tracy Chapman and Crack and The Three Stooges

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How to Read a Book to Your Children

I bought a Beaufortlea. The title of it is HP Loved Crafts. I tried to read it to her the other day and discovered much to my horror that this is a terrible book for children. It actually ends with someone leaping out of a window, killing themselves. There is the last page of the book looking up at the window but what you can see in the foreground is someone's dead eyes. This is the end drawing. It's like in the style of Dr. Seuss. But yeah, you can't read this to your children. Don't do it unless you want them to have nightmares.

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