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By Jack Joseph Smith

15 Is that very far? Well, that's pretty fears Yes that's fer aways’ Then you couldn't play on the farm any more,’ Ne I couldn! 4. Michaelé' Did they let you play wacom Yes Well, I'did' at'first, but zhen I had te ge back te werk, oni’ Maa’ did yeu have to aor? I washed dish$e-in the -dining-halls Like the maid ‘yeu said“yét were-going 40 get for mom? Mom is sick, and she needs to rest more, What's wrong with her? She ia going to have te have lets ef eperationss Is-that-why she can't have a baby? We have you Michael, and we leve-yeu, I know,’ How:much does-a maid ooute Don't worry’atout that Michaels Mere than five dollars? Your net old enough to talk about money Michaelt Are we-rich Dad? Ne michaels All of the kidé-that go te regular scheol, said they weres My father-had’ stepped’ the car end wae: looking away from me toward the nursery scheel building, when he said, ‘yell? were-here Michael; Better rum te scheol, or you'll be lates a“ “Good by Dads ‘d

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Questions about college and distance turn toward money, the mother's illness and missed childbirth, hired help, and the child's uneasy discovery that the family may not be rich after all.

The emotional center is not the answer about wealth but the father's evasions when money and the mother's body come too close together. Nursery school chatter about richness collides with operations, dishes washed in college dining halls, and a goodbye at the curb.

Claude

Money enters the car in small increments — five dollars for a maid, the mother's coming operations — until Michael's question about being rich collapses the conversation and father drops him at nursery school.