“There’s a new one!” declared Daughter Number Four as we walked to school. She was pointing at an election poster: even she had been noticing how few of them there were. When I explained that this was, in part, because there were only three candidates (this was before Jim Gavin’s spectacular departure from the race last weekend), she wanted to know why. She was slightly aghast: they’d just had student council election in her school, and there were way more candidates than that.
I changed the subject.
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