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Taken from real events the following is dramatized: We climb in our new used truck. We close the doors. Sniff, sniff. Wow. There's a jagged cloying smell. P.U. My son groans, “I can’t breathe dada.* I can’t breathe.” I grab the offending deodorizer, which is hiding in plain sight and hanging from the rearview mirror, and I rips it down. My son yells, “No dada it stinks in here! We need that artichoke-looking deodorizer thing!” I calmly rebut, “No we don’t,” and instruct the lad in a wise and fatherly way: “Roll down the freakin window, son, we live in Maine.” * The a in the first syllable of a central Maine word for father is pronounced like the a in dad. The second syllable in pronounced duh. Da-duh.
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