At four, I went down a slide sucking on a bamboo garden cane, which hit the ground before I did.

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She would tuck them between my knees or, if I was lying on my back, slide them behind my lower back, the place that is still hers.

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And yet I always introduce the slide before it is shown and can talk about it vividly right before I flash it all on the screen.

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