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A long, long, long time ago -- months and months and months -- Anna met The Man Who Likes Cake and Pie. And he gave her a present -- a little vial of something that would make any paint she added it to the right kind of paint for painting flowers

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"Spelling bees," Anna says, decidedly.

"The teacher goes around the room, and makes you take a turn trying to spell a word outloud. And if you don't know how to spell it, everyone will know. And if you do know how to spell it, you have to take another turn and keep taking turns until there's a word you can't spell or until you're the only one left who hasn't messed up, and I'm never the only one left who hasn't messed up."

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"It's supposed to help us learn or something.

"And the people who are good at it like it because they think it's fun and sometimes they are very very snobby about how good they are.

"Jemima is like that. She wins half the time and then she's all . . . jerky about it."

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This has never occured to Anna before, and she looks suitably impressed with Elle's logic.

"Exactly.

"Plus, she's named after syrup."

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"I know.

"And it's not her fault."

It's her parentys' fault.

"But it is a funny name."

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[OOC: Works for me! Thanks for the thread. These two are fun.]