Once, the Leffers had told them, at a dinner, that they had a German tutor, and that both they and the kids were learning German and that they were going to spend all of Christmas vacation next year in Germany, celebrating their new knowledge until they sounded like soldiers in the Third fucking Reich. Cyndi had dropped her voice down low and said, “You cannot compete with that kind of immersion,” and Rachel had nodded emphatically and said, “So true, I never thought of it like that,” like no one had ever said that practice was important for reinforcing information, as if the entire education
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