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Turning the World Wondrous

Turning the World Wondrous

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It was a young pool, only two years old, of the fragile type fashioned by laying a plastic liner within a carefully carved hole in the ground.

“The Orphaned Swimming Pool,” by John Updike

white life donut on swimming pool
It was a youn…

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