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For one, whether Saudi Arabia can pony up $1 trillion — a figure amounting to 80% of its annual GDP and more than twice its foreign exchange reserves — is an open question.

“Giddy-Yap, Rainbow!” she read, and confidently declared, “This story is about a pony. I can tell from the picture of the pony on the cover. But babies cannot read.”

Out of habit she made a beeline to the favorite shelves from her girlhood, the ones where the pony stories were kept.

His chestnut pony, Starburst, is as spirited and high-strung as Rainbow is gentle and sweet.

“After all, not even Edith-Anne Pevington wrote postcards to Rainbow, clever pony that he was,” she thought as she helped the little girl squirm her arms into the sleeves.