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Okay, as adults,
it's pretty rare to have a moment where you're talking with somebody in your own country,
in your own hometown, in your own language, and you have no idea what is actually happening.
Where things become confusing and not in that, oh, what did he mean by that sort of way?
But in an eye of Lucy, how did I get myself into this situation kind of confusion?
like, for example,
Amy was back home in Indiana on a break from college and she was accompanying her brother's high school class on a trip to this health and science museum they have in South Bend called the HealthWorks Kids Museum.
And just to give you a sense of who the characters are in this story,
Amy's brother is autistic and he is developmentally disabled.
If you had to picture Ben,
I would say picture this really handsome star athlete looking guy who's sort of has an an age of maybe five to eight years old and loves dinosaurs.
As for Amy, aside from the fact that she's very close to her brother,
you can get a good sense of who she is by the conversation that she had with Ben's teacher on the bus with all the developmentally disabled kids driving to this museum.
Amy was talking to the teacher about her schoolwork, which frankly seems very, very hard.
Amy was majoring in physics and studying in Germany.
in Germany.
Not only were the classes in German, but we were also using all of these graduate textbooks.
But she was really nice, and she just listened to me the whole way over.