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You know the scene.
The three-year-old plops herself down on the couch, her feet dangling and her favorite stuffy scrunched in her chunky palm.
“Actually,” she says with the lisp of a toddler, “pterodactyls aren’t really dinosaurs.”
The adults around smile, one even lifts a hand to her chest and mouths, “Did she just say actually?”
The young child doesn’t r…
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