James, 22
“Do you know Winnie The Pooh?” he asks.
“Not personally,” I answer.
“Well, no, me neither, but I grew up in the Hundred Acre Wood. And it really is a hundred acres, and also very woodsy.”
“So A.A. Milne didn’t believe in false advertising,” I remark.
“Well, I don’t know,” he grins, “Because I don’t know him. Personally.”
A minute and then he adds, “But his cottage was right next to ours.”
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