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Hi, Chris,
This is a wonderful story and, although funny, illustrates something that we, as adults, have forgotten.
The world of the child.
Because I have worked and lived for a long time with children, I feel that I still live in a child's world.
I love to join in fairy or elf hunts, I have discovered the houses built by maggots inside apples, I have spent hours watching ants caring for and milking aphids, I believe Pinocchio became a real boy, angels live by my bed at night and I still have the ability to tell stories and frighten myself.
The sights that children see are not full of the associations placed upon them by adults so this little girl's comment (at 3 years of age) is superbly logical - he shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place!
How sad that we sometimes destroy the innocence by the urge to explain.
Regards
Arthur
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