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373 Roald Dahl

The History of Literature

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Doll, I'm a Doll and I Know the Alphabet

My younger son refused to say anything past the letter c, no matter how much you tried to bribe him or demand that he keep going with the other letters try to coerce him. Older son learned the alphabet and recited it dutifully. Doll, i'm guessing, was taking a kind of pleasure in getting a word wrong, making it mean something different, playing around with it. They both have their own strength and weaknesses but i wouldn't trade either one of them for anything else in the world.

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