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Friday · themeless · September 18

The one for the tiny gem inside the oyster

Somewhere in this grid is the small treasure an oyster makes out of an irritation it could not expel. I think about that more than is reasonable. The good stuff often forms around the thing you wanted to spit out. Kids are unusually gifted at this and unusually reluctant to admit it.

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