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Well, I've brought
along a formulation.

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I wrote this down,
but I didn't write it.

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Somebody else said
this, and I wrote it

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down as the way to do it.

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This for me is
like a touchstone.

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It's the way to talk,
the way to write.

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It's our daughter Kit,
when she was six years old.

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We were coming home from
the coast in Oregon,

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and the family had
been down there all day

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and everyone got sleepy
and it's a long way.

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And so Kit, six years old,
stood by the dashboard

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to help daddy drive.

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To talk and keep me awake
while I got us home.

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And she imagined a way of
life for the two of us,

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and this is what she said.

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"We'd have a old car, the
kind that gets flat tires,

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but inside would be
wolf skin on the seats

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and warm fur on
the steering wheel,

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and wolf fur on all the buttons.

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And we live in a ranch
house, made out of logs

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with a loft where you sleep.

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And you'd walk a little ways.

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There'd be the farm
with the horses.

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We'd drive to town, and
we'd have flat tires

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and be sort of old."

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Well, it's the momentum of
it that I wanted to get at.

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The sort of trust, Kit didn't
even know how to talk right.

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We'd have an old car for
instance, I remember.

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And still what she
had was the kind

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of feeling for the ongoing
experience in herself.

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This is what I would
like to try to locate,

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and that's what I'd
like to witness for her.