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My nephew's birthday party is tomorrow and my daughter's is Sunday. They're both turning 8. By the age of 8, John Updike wrote his first story, which began: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire."
Oh... and the Olympics begin this afternoon. I'm hoping they put Wayne Gretzky back in that pick-up truck.
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