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This sprightly, gifted 3-year-old jumped
into the lap of any seated mime, accepted any icy
glop, and quickly earned membership in
strolling families from New Jersey or Guatemala—
a prancing, untethered sweetheart with 10 billion
pristine neurons, deciding that experiential time
binding had been useful but that since homuncular
perceptions might prove cumbersome, she needed to
slather Minnie and Pluto into 27 subcortical
ganglia to make room for Pliny and Plato,
meanwhile reassuring Grandpa:

"I'm going over to see the purple clown.
Do you have a problem with that?"

Ed Spudis, MD
Winston-Salem, NC

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:939.