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toothpaste ad. As the ball passing continued, our retired music teacher and resident tap dancer launched into “Chicago”and a little soft (hiking) shoe. Giggles broke into gales of laughter and soon the boys followed Anne's lead: “Shisago, Shisago, that toddlin town, Shisago, Shisago, I'll show you around....” With each refrain, the boys’ voices grew louder until we were all singing our hearts
out and shuffling up quite a dust storm. After “...my home town,” applause and bows, along with a couple of curtsies, were taken all around.
As the boys skipped off to into the unknown, little hands waving furiously behind them, we resumed our chores, savoring the magic moment in the shadow of the Sahara Desert — where boys will be boys and we adults were briefly kids again.