Writer's Block: News development

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Great - a history question. Well, the first memorable event was when I was three, going on four. Assorted adults -- my parents, an uncle and aunt who didn't have television, some others -- were gathered around our telly, and it was going to be terribly important and wonderful. Not so, of course: lots of adults talking and talking, in a foreign language, too. [Completely irrelevant aside: adults are often devious to the point of lying. I mean, if an eight-year-old starts on a book called A Doll's House she's allowed to presume that it is about a doll's house, right? Not so.]
In the end, the thing did get better. A man in funny clothes with a strange sort of helmet came out of a thingummy and started walking - or rather, bouncing - in a hilarious manner.
I wanted to walk like that, too. My father, very knowledgeable on all sorts of subjects, told me that the man was walking on the moon.
It seemed like a nice thing to do, but I was told that it was only for adults.
I'm an adult now, but I did not turn out to be another Neil Armstrong.

Writer's Block: News development

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Great - a history question. Well, the first memorable event was when I was three, going on four. Assorted adults -- my parents, an uncle and aunt who didn't have television, some others -- were gathered around our telly, and it was going to be terribly important and wonderful. Not so, of course: lots of adults talking and talking, in a foreign language, too. [Completely irrelevant aside: adults are often devious to the point of lying. I mean, if an eight-year-old starts on a book called A Doll's House she's allowed to presume that it is about a doll's house, right? Not so.]
In the end, the thing did get better. A man in funny clothes with a strange sort of helmet came out of a thingummy and started walking - or rather, bouncing - in a hilarious manner.
I wanted to walk like that, too. My father, very knowledgeable on all sorts of subjects, told me that the man was walking on the moon.
It seemed like a nice thing to do, but I was told that it was only for adults.
I'm an adult now, but I did not turn out to be another Neil Armstrong.