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As a tour guide at the University of Saskatchewan, I accompanied a group of first-graders to the biology museum.  One young tyke was fascinated with a mammoth tusk.  “The mammoth is extinct,” I said, “which means it died many, many years ago.”

He looked up at me with big eyes and asked, “Were you sad when it happened?”

Reader’s Digest, November, 1991, page 80