I keep thinking about a kid I met at the L.A. Times Book Festival.
She came through the line with a copy of Flora and Ulysses and told me that it was her favorite book.
I said, “Oh, thank you. Did it make you laugh?”
And she said, “I laughed internally.”
Which made me laugh out loud.
“I memorized the poem,” she said. “The one at the end of the book.”
And then she stood in front of me and recited Ulysses’ poem to Flora.
Which, of course, made me tear up.
Oh, you readers, you are the ever-expanding universe to me.

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