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тАЬYes?тАЭ

тАЬMaybe you could come upstairs and visit us here, and give one of our lunchtime lectures. That would
be a great way to return a favor. We could learn more about your situation, and, you know, your
approach to science, or to life, or whatever. Something like that. Do you think Rudra would be
interested?тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩm sure he would. It would be a great opportunity.тАЭ

тАЬWell not exactly, itтАЩs just a lunchtime series of talks that Aleesha runs, but I do think it would be
interesting. We could use some of your attitude here, I think, and you could talk about these programs
too, if you wanted.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩll talk to the rimpoche about it.тАЭ

тАЬOkay good. IтАЩll put Aleesha in touch.тАЭ
 After that Anna worked on the stats again, until she saw the time and realized it was her day to visit
NickтАЩs class and help them with math hour. тАЬAh shit.тАЭ Throw together a bag of work stuff, shut down,
heft the shoulder bag of chilled milk bottles, and off she went. Down into the Metro, working as she sat,
then standing on the crowded Red Line, Shady Grove train; out and up and into a taxi, of all things, to get
to NickтАЩs school on time.

She arrived just a little late, dumped her stuff, and settled down to work with the kids. Nick was in third
grade now, but had been put in an advanced math group. In general the class did things in math that Anna
found surprising for their age. She liked working with them; there were twenty-eight kids in the class, and
Mrs. Wilkins, their teacher, was grateful for the help.

Anna wandered from group to group, helping with multipart problems that involved multiplication,
division, and rounding off. When she came to NickтАЩs group she sat down on one of the tiny chairs next to
him, and they elbowed each other playfully for room at the round low table. He loved it when she came
to his class, which she had tried to do on a semiregular basis every year since he had started school.

тАЬAll right Nick quit that, show the gang here how youтАЩre going to solve this problem.тАЭ

тАЬOkay.тАЭ He furrowed his brow in a way she recognized inside the muscles of her own forehead.
тАЬThirty-nine divided by two, thatтАЩsтАжnineteen and a halfтАжround that up to twentyтАФтАЭ

тАЬNo, donтАЩt round off in the middle of the process.тАЭ

тАЬMom, come on.тАЭ

тАЬHey, you shouldnтАЩt.тАЭ

тАЬMom, youтАЩre quibbling again!тАЭ Nick exclaimed.

The group cackled at this old joke.

тАЬItтАЩs not quibbling,тАЭ Anna insisted. тАЬItтАЩs a very important distinction.тАЭ

тАЬWhat, the difference between nineteen and a half and twenty?тАЭ