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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

“Can you imagine what that poor little child is going through every single day, terrified for her life?” he said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023

He saw a little child stumble and fall and the mother bend and yank him up, and he thought about home, about his little cousins and his parents and Anulika.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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