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But day-to-day, all three best friends pitch in to take care of Georgette, who is precocious and theatrical and a huge fan of Selena.

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He did not think of himself as a precocious intellect but he took up a scholarship at the University of Chicago at the tender age of 15.

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“Sometimes you can win the Juvenile with a precocious kind of horse. … Citizen Bull won it but he had distance limitations.”

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The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.

With that goal before the international break, he broke yet another record in his remarkably precocious career.

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