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again. I could swear they were not only back, but they had come back with more ferociousness than before. They were everywhere. I launched an all-out assault, even spraying along the roads and along all of the neighbor’s property lines. It was all my wife could do to keep me from spraying the neighbors’ lawns. You’ve heard of the mysterious alien crop circles? Well, this would be the case of the not-so- mysterious lawn circles. Everything looked good, at least everything that had survived the onslaught and wasn’t brown. Then, in a month, there they were again, multiplied exponentially from the days past. I couldn’t believe it, I had done everything I could think of, outside of enclosing my whole yard inside a building. I was just about to consider artificial turf when I had a revelation. In all my frustration, I walked out, and there was my four-year-old. She had two handfuls of snowy white, very ripe, dandelions. She would walk around the yard, and then she would whirl around like a ballerina and watch the vivacious little seeds swirl into the lawn all around her. When all the seeds were gone from the stems, she would throw them down and walk out across the neighbor’s field, bring back some more, and do it again and again. 26