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he asked one afternoon, pointing at a carrot.
“A carrot.”
He picked it up and sniffed it with grave concentration.
“Orange,” Brooke said.
He nodded, as if filing the information somewhere very important.
The first time he laughed, it was over cornbread batter.
Brooke was telling him about a disaster from her childhood, how she had once used salt instead continue reading …
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