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A childhood belief about speaking

When I lived in Nairobi, Kenya as a high school kid, we went out to dinner one night with another family that had a little 5 year old kid. He was extremely excited in the car ride to the restaurant, which nobody understood, until we got there and he was instantly bewildered, then crushed. "What? This isn't a CARNIVAL!" he whined. The name of the restaurant was The Carnivore.

Poor kid; he had it wrong all along!

— Mzungu mama

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