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Confronted with his realistic, blinking, speaking face, she felt “scared … like a little child again.”

From Slate Dec. 18, 2025

A five-year-old boy who drowned during a family holiday in Greece was an "excitable, happy, loving little child" with "no sense of danger", an inquest has heard.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

“Then you switch perspective and be this little child … and you see a big adult who tells you all of these things.”

From Salon May 26, 2025

With earnings of about $42,000 and little child support, she moved with four children to a house that consumed roughly two-thirds of her income.

From New York Times Dec. 11, 2023

And then she sat there, never having felt this brittle before, waiting to calm down, waiting for the nightmare to end, slowly and desperately and like a little child shaking her head.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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