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His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world.Megan Frazer Blakemore
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Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.Megan Frazer Blakemore
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Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.Megan Frazer Blakemore
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Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet.Megan Frazer Blakemore