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txwhitedove

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4. So beautiful, this speaks to me. My grandparents raised me, with a huge red 1940's Webster Dictionary

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Sat Oct 5, 2024, 11:56 AM

Oct 5

used as a booster seat at the table. All through my youth I actually read this dictionary, with pictures, tables, foreign languages, and on. This dictionary is tattered, in need of repair, but proudly sits on my living room side table. Grandparents were Oklahoma red dirt farm kids who went to college, became teachers who considered books sacred. The key to wonders, indeed.

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A book of spells, the key to wonders [View all] bigtree Oct 5 OP

How wonderful to watch magic as it happens in real life. flying_wahini Oct 5 #1

:) AllaN01Bear Oct 5 #2

Visiting my seven year old granddaughter yesterday, watching her read her books and reading the stories she had written, NBachers Oct 5 #3

So beautiful, this speaks to me. My grandparents raised me, with a huge red 1940's Webster Dictionary txwhitedove Oct 5 #4

I had a red Webster's dictionary too in the 1970s Xavier Breath Oct 5 #5

She's right. Words have power and the pen is mightier than the sword. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 5 #6

My wife is a total book hound. Mr.Bill Oct 5 #7