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Origins and Expectations
By Ceefax
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Dr Sally Creek sat down to ease off her shoes and glanced over at her eleven-year-old son, curled half-off the sofa, engrossed in a battered old book. Encyclopaedia of the Unexplained, proclaimed the cover.
She moved across to sit next to him. He leaned into her, but didn't look up. "Another one of Jordan's?" she asked.
He nodded, his head of dark curls still bent over the columns of text.
Putting her arm around him, she craned slightly to read over his shoulder. "Can you tell me what's wrong with this pyramid power experiment?" Her short, neat fingernail tapped the yellowed page.
"No control," he answered absently, his eyes still skipping over the words. "Besides," he added in the same distracted tone, "it's not really an experiment. More of an anecdote."
She laughed and squeezed him tight for a second, before getting to her feet and heading off to change out of her work clothes, shooting one proud smile back at her intelligent, well-raised offspring.
Yes, some day he would make a wonderful scientist.
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