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The next big step

Today, my wife took our oldest daughter, who will be three years old in February, to see her first movie. It was Rugrats in Paris. Apparently the little one was very civilized, but about two-thirds of the way through the film she said it was "time to go," so they went.

My first movie was Star Wars, in 1977. I still find it hard to believe that my parents didn't take me to a movie until I was eight, but it seemed normal at the time. The again, I think my parents have probably seen less than five movies in a theatre in the intervening 23 years. They are not much of a moviegoing couple -- they prefer to dance.

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