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Children hardly ever know real friendship.  They only have 'chums' or
accomplices, and they change friends as they change schools or classes
or even school-benches.  That night, on that Christmas Eve, I felt a
new emotion: the firelight flickered and I saw a golden-headed bird
fly upwards in a wisp of smoke.
		-- Marcel Pagnol, My Father's Glory & My
		   Mother's Castle, p. 267

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