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He smiles.

“One more time,” says Navvy Jim.

Emily sticks out her tongue at him. She giggles. “OK!”

“One,” counts Navvy Jim.

“Two,” counts Navvy Jim.

He closes his metal eyes.

“Three!”

In that moment she gives him a thumbs-up and he throws scissors, and he opens eyes that have seen beyond the vistas of the world.

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