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Joining the Wild Things “And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.” Throughout life, a person makes very significant changes. Within the first five years of life, a child has learned to walk, talk, and eat all by herself. Later there’s marriage, children of her own, and eventually growing old. …

…it’s through I’ll go home--maybe to my own family. It is so wonderful to know that in the middle of this very unreliable world, I have a very reliable family who loves me. “[So] he sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper was waiting for him . . . and it was still hot.”