Ah, are you an only child? [It's impossible for him to picture what that would be like; even when the house was empty he was always painfully aware of the rest of his family, and the idea that there could always be another child.] You can borrow some of mine, if you'd like. They'd love the chance to make it an even thirty. It means a lot of fussing, though, and I'll have to teach you their names so they don't tease you for forgetting one.
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