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When Plans Don’t Work Out
Not all of our plans work out. There are plans that shouldn’t work out, like when we plan to build a fort by digging in the banks of the river, and some adult comes along before we’re half-finished, and takes away all our shovels, and alerts the rest of the parents in the neighborhood, and there is this sudden ban on playing by the river. Which is good. Otherwise, we would end up like Theodore’s cousin, Bradley’s friend, whose brother, Jerome, HAD dug out a fort in a sandy bank of the Fulda and when the whole thing had collapsed on his head, he almost suffocated. No, it’s true that some of our plans are better off stopped.
But then again, there are plans for which there is no reason on earth to stop. In fact, there are a bi-jillion reasons you can give to justify, assure, and explain why your plan is such a good plan.
And that is what Clara was doing at this very moment, for Mother Stahlbaum had returned with a bevy of maids.
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