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One at the ASPCA event, and one at The Strand. I always enjoy speaking to kids in that age group if they're not in a mob of other kids that age, get them more or less alone from other pre-teens and they tend to be enthusiastically insightful. Ana is entering that stage, and so long as they're alone* it is one of my favorite ages of childhood. Get them in groups and they're a ravening horde, I've never figured out why.

* Not in any skeevy way. Middle schoolers with adults or children younger or older than they are also tend to be friendly and courteous and all that.

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