A young person I know recently learned there’s no Tooth Fairy. There were a few minutes of hassle, but then they noticed an open jar of Nutella and said, “Well, I can still have a fingerful of Nutella!” And as they smiled and did just that, I thought, “Oh, look. They just put sugar where the magic used to be.”
There are lots of things we put where the ma…
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