"...all of us have probably lost some of the feelings of innocence, or invincibility, or immortality that we carried at eighteen. Maybe things didn’t work out the way we hoped.
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I asked my teenager if he'd heard about what happened to the Reflecting Pool. He had not. I described the process to him. I waited.
"...but painting the bottom a different color -- is it a darker color? because that could make the water hotter," he pointed out.
Yyyyyyyyyep. Sure could.
Look you have to have some VERY specific background for this to work at all, but: What do you call a muppet who appears only once?
A hapax mahna mahna