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Play hide and seek in the library in & out among the children’s section as we always do. We laughing silently. I pull from the shelf Grimm’s scary stories but oh no you! Then I take out Anderson’s Tales but you’re not there. I create a wall of empty spaces & blocks of sunshine.' Finally find you smiling behind An Illustrated Shakespeare ....as always. We know the end before we begin but delight in its playing. “Here I am! ” you tell me & I always try to look amazed. The look on your three-year old face! Now you’ve grown to have kids of your own I still pull out An Illustrated Shakespeare amazed to find you no longer there.