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                         THE FUN THEY HAD - 1                                
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   Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May
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17, 2155 she wrote, "Today Tommy found a real book!"                         
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   It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a 
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little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories   
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were printed on paper.                                                       
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   They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully  
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funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way there were    
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supposed to - on a screen, you know. And then, when they turned back to the  
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page before, it had the same words on it that it had had when they read it   
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the first time.                                                              
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   "Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book, you  
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just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million   
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books on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away."        
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   "Same with mine," said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't seen as many     
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telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.                                     
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   She said, "Where did you find it?"                                        
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   "in my house." He pointed without looking, because he was busy reading."In
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the attic."                                                                  
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   "What's it about?"                                                        
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