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4 Stars for “The American Man: Age Ten”

Found a lot of its footing in its second half, kids are so strange and magical. They have their own inner worlds and opinions and everything. And they have so much imagination.

I miss my baby brother very much.

“I do it all the time… First I plan who I’d like to catch in it, and then we get started. Trespassers have to beware.”

Silly little boys 🥲

“All it takes is a dollar and a dream.”

God kids are so funny :)

“I think the most beautiful woman in the world is probably my mom.”

The collision in his mind of what he understands, what he hears, what he figures out, what popular culture puts into him, what he knows, what he pretends to know, and what he imagines makes an interesting mess. The mess often has the form of what he will probably think like when he is a grown man, but the content of what he is like as a little boy stop

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An ordinary life examine closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plane