And then on our bear hunting walk the next day, I told her that I wished my favorite episode of Reading Rainbow would come back on. A few months earlier, I had watched the episode with the dinosaur bones and I wanted to see it again. She told me that she talked to Levar Burton that very day and she asked him to play that episode again—just for me. So when I got home and turned on the TV... it was the Reading Rainbow episode where Levar Burton went searching for dinosaur bones. I sat and watched the show and I said, “It’s the dinosaur episode.” My mother said, “I told you.” And then she laughed
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