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Caucasian woman, mid 30s, with short blonde hair, wearing white jacket, tan pants, and black boots.
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins)
Page 93:
The Planet of Mars
On the planet of Mars
They have clothes just like ours,
And they have the same shoes and same laces,
And they have the same charms and same graces,
And they have the same head and same faces . . .
But not in the
Very same
Places.
She was having tea in the kitchen when her young daughter slid a page onto the table, crude crayon drawings of three heads, each with wide, thin-lipped grins, beady eyes, and stringy hair. A family portrait, she announced, bouncing against her mother’s hip, tippy-toed and jabbing at each head. At the bottom of the page she’d drawn a ball of squiggles with legs, and Xs for eyes, then again near the top of the page.
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