At four years of age, communication no longer requires a handful of exclamation marks. It is not like being two years old when adults find you such a suspicious being; monitoring your every move and address you not in complete sentences but with a series of command. Junior! Stop! Don’t do that! Being the longest sentence directed your way. Adults at that point do not even wait for you to make a move. They follow your eyes as you contemplate the mess on the coffee table and think how to rearrange the cups and teaspoons. Shiny things should be left on the table and dull china is best on the...
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