ashaland: Tantrum as a thing of terrible beauty

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How Dutch of Sweet Juniper could transform his two year-old daughter's tantrum into a literary masterpiece, I'll never know. I feel for him, reading the story of the Zoo Visit Gone Bad, but I find myself feeling glad it happened so I could bask in the retelling.

Posted on January 30, 2007 at 07:09 AM | Permalink

asha, you are too kind. thank you.

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