“I’ve got some insects, too, if you want to see,” he said. I wasn’t sure if laughing would offend him, so I just smiled and nodded. For the next hour, I listened to Rich talk about dinosaurs, prehistoric times, common misconceptions about which dinosaurs actually coexisted, and even a brief rant on what most movies got wrong. If I’d been asked to list the million most exciting conversation topics I could think of an hour ago, I was pretty sure dinosaurs wouldn’t have cracked the list. But Rich was mesmerizing to watch. For a little while, he didn’t seem so far out of reach. I could forget all
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