Clara arrived in London for half-term with a book about cephalopod cognition and strong opinions about the seating arrangement on the Eurostar, which she expressed to Leo directly and without apology during the journey.I was told this by Leo when he arrived at my parents' house on the Wednesday, Clara already in the hallway taking off her coat with the efficiency of someone who knew where she was going and was not going to be delayed by coats. Matteo was behind her with a rucksack that appeared to contain, among other things, a substantial collection of rocks. Daniel came last with the luggage and the expression of someone who had been on a train for two hours with Clara's opinions and Matteo's rocks and was glad to have arrived somewhere with other adults.Clara was ten years and four months old and had been developing her opinions since approximately the age of three, the opinions becoming more precise each year rather than more numerous, as though she was refining toward something
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