Geography Reference
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“You can put my map in your topic if you want. I drew it today.”
“Really? You drew a map? Let me see.”
The map—the first map—is sitting in a pile of topics at the head of his bed, just where
I used to keep my
Medallion World Atlas
. “This is the Sea of Sharks,” he says. “You have
to follow this dotted line through the sharks and the octopuses and jellyfish to get to the
X-marks-the-spot.”
“What's at the X?”
This is apparently the silliest question anyone has ever asked. “That's the treasure!” He
yawns. “Tomorrow I'm going to make a map of my submarine. Will you put it in your
topic?”
“We'll see. Good night, kiddo.”
“Good night, Dad.”
Maybe the map gene lives after all. I walk downstairs smiling, and Dylan, I can only as-
sume, drifts off to explore the Sea of Sharks.