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Prompt: Childhood Beliefs

Published on August 21, 2020 by Editorial Staff

When you were a kid, you believed things that may not have been quite accurate. I thought I could see atoms when they were actually dust motes, but never mind that! Take something inaccurate you used to believe and go with it.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske

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