You went around back, where in the playground kids were dangling from the jungle gym waiting for mothers; connie could feel their cold skinned knees … - John Crowley

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You went around back, where in the playground kids were dangling from the jungle gym waiting for mothers; connie could feel their cold skinned knees and barked knuckles–Bunce always said that imagining pain and discomfort was worse for her than the real thing when it came, which it almost never did.