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A TWO-QUESTION QUIZ: HOW OLD IS "OLD"? HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR "GOODNIGHT MOON"?

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A TWO-QUESTION QUIZ: HOW OLD IS "OLD"? HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR "GOODNIGHT MOON"?   The answer to the first question is "5 years older than you." The answer to the second about when you're too old for the children's classic, "Goodnight Moon," is NEVER. While painfully packing everything up to head back to my other country and life, I started thinking about "Goodnight Moon." I recall the first time I heard about that book. A neighbor, the wife of a minister who was moving to a new location was having a tag sale. And unlike yours truly, she was not a hoarder. Although my son was only about nine months old at the time, I was drawn to the children's books that she was selling. Among them was this odd little paperback that was not in very good condition. "Goodnight Moon?" "Never heard of it. Looks a bit boring.  I'm not sure I want that one." "Oh...