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Chatting casually at the family dinner. Me: "Madeleine, where is Britain?"

Madeleine: "Well there is France. And then there is Italy with that island. And Britain is below that...."

Me: "Atlas, please."

Madeleine: "Oh, Dad. Not this again. You always ask me things I don't want to do!"

Me: "Well, you are going to know where you live."

Madeleine: "I don't care where I live. I only care that I am alive."

Me: "That is all very fine and dramatic but no Britain, no desert."

Madeleine, tears: "Noooo!"

Madeleine opens the Atlas and scans the index: "How do you spell Europe?"

Me: "Well, it is... but you want Britain. Or England."

Madeleine eventually locates Britain on page 48.

Me: "You had better remember that page."

Madeleine: "I am going to write it on my hand."

Me:

Madeleine: "I am going to draw Europe on my hand." Pictured.