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Thursday, May 28, 2009

"The house smelled of dusty carpets"



"The house smelled of dusty carpets" - In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

8 comments:

  1. all mothers
    undergo
    the binky test
    some pass
    and some fail

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  2. A child lost his dummy on a walk in the woods -- a habit was broken, another step in life was taken.

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  3. Growing up... pretty much AB's comment...

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  4. Looking again I think it looks pretty sad...

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  5. If the truth be known it was lost mid-need ... and the child had to go cold turkey.

    Or is could simply be a dummy spit ...

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  6. Oh...it's a soother! It took me a long time to see it because I thought it was some kind iof butterfly chrysalis!

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  7. Interesting, all the different names for the same thing.

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  8. PJ, the German word is "Schnuller" - no etymology for that.

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