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We ran, missiles came again, a child fell down.
He feels old, very old, older than Eli, he wishes he were young again, a child.
After many years as "the man of the house," the sick husband is once again a child who must be cared for, often by the very person he signed on to protect.
In "Human Chain," Heaney's latest collection, the poet is again a child in the world of things, his attention drawn to objects common as a coal sack: Not coal dust, more the weighty grounds of coal The lorryman would lug in open bags And vent into a corner, A sullen pile But soft to the shovel, accommodating As the clattering coal was not.
The most beautiful element of Charles, for me, was after all this learning and accumulation, the smile with which he would play some beloved modulation, or demonstrate some trick of pedalling: suddenly again a child, innocence meeting knowledge at the end of the road.
"I had no childhood," he had told me, but the transplant has given him a chance to experience again a child's firsts: his first sneeze, his first kiss, his first tears.
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"The trouble with these new people," I recall hearing again and again as a child in Sacramento, "is they think it's supposed to be easy".
I begin to remember the intricate geometries of Manhattan, the way wooden water towers pop up on the rooftops again and again like a child's recurring rhyme.
"You know who I am?" He looked childishly pleased; then, again like a child, he pouted.
But then again as a child I never even climbed on a garage roof!
Soon she was pregnant again, with a child that she wanted and Jess didn't.
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