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On Chores

“I don’t like cleaning or dusting or cooking or doing dishes, or any of those things," I explained to her. “And I don’t usually do it. I find it boring, you see.” “Everyone has to do those things,” she said. “Rich people don’t,” I pointed out. Juniper laughed, as she often did at things I…

Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk Roads by Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum

Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk Roads (1983)

by Evelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum

Rating: A+

A friend used to loan me this lovely book when I was 12 or 13. I loved reading and re-reading it to the point where I remember asking him if he could just gift it to me for my birthday (he declined). And then Life happened and I grew up and I forgot all about it until around 3 years ago, when I sud…