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He had accumulated better than thirty of them in his four years on the earth, an extensive collection which ranged from the seventy-nine-cent plastic jobs that his dad sometimes bought him at the Bridgton Pharmacy where he always got Time magazine on Wednesday evenings (you had to play carefully with the seventynine-cent trucks because they were MADE IN TAIWAN and had a tendency to fall apart) to the flagship of his line, a great yellow Tonka bulldozer that came up to his knees when he was standing.
In den vier Jahren seines Lebens hatten sich bei ihm über dreißig Stück angesammelt, von den Plastikautos für neunundsiebzig Cents, die sein Vatef ihm manchmal aus der Drogerie in Bridgton mitbrachte, wo er am Mittwochabend immer das Nachrichtenmagazin Time kaufte, bis zum Prunkstück seiner Sammlung, einer großen gelben Tonka Planierraupe, die ihm. bis an die Knie reichte, wenn er stand. Mit den Autos für siebenundneunzig Cents mußte man übrigens vorsichtig spielen, denn sie waren MADE IN TAIWAN und neigten dazu, auseinanderzufallen.
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