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You Couldn’t Make It Up

Our six-year-old son told my wife and I that his grandma had warned him not to go near the river because the big cherry would get him.

Confused, we rang his grandma only to find out that she actually said, “Be careful not to fall into the river as the current will take you away.”

CLED HERBERT,

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