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old gremlin with blond hair, blue eyes,

and piggy tails. She has taken a real

liking to Tinkertoys.

There are Tinkertoys in the bowls,

Tinkertoys in my bed, Tinkertoys in my

shoes, and Tinkertoys stuffed in the

floppy drive of my computer. If I get

up in the middle of the night for a drink

of water, I am sure to step on a

Tinkertoy and roll bruisedy, scrapity,

crashity down the stairs. The last time

that happened, my hollering could have

put any decibel meter off the scale. I

woke the whole house and most of the

neighbors within a half mile radius. I

swore I was going to take every

Tinkertoy to the second-hand store.

But that was then. My little, blond,

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