Boy’s Favorite Place

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Today Father and Mother and Boy and Girl are going to a friend’s house to carve pumpkins. During breakfast this morning, Father asked Boy if Boy knew where they’d be going today.

Boy thought for a moment and then his eyes lit up.

“Costco?!?”

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