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Old 01-11-2015, 03:49 AM
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Cool Grown-ups like numbers.

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Originally Posted by Mari View Post
My mdoc has started talking about the importance of the
microbes in our gut. She esp likes talking about the numbers
From The Little Prince, by Antoine Saint-Exupéry:
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Grown-ups like numbers.
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If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...," they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they exclaim, "What a pretty house!"
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