There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Aladdin and death itself against the

and death itself against the unstoppable love between two girls

there’s Teagan

”—Geraldine Brooks

then an elephant named Louise

Bouncy rhyme carries the story headlong into the growing hilarity

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