Hannibal crossed his famous Alps, and there comes a day in a boy’s life when he first crosses the street and enters the company of the great explorers. We gave up at about eight feet, but it made a great fort. In 1260 Marco Polo headed off to find China, and in 1967, when I was seven, I tried to dig a hole straight through from our backyard with my friend Danny Wilson. It comes natu-rally, like our innate love of maps. My gender seems to need little encouragement. IntRoDUctIonI came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.

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