"It's amazing just looking out the window -- a bit like sitting in the front seat in Knight Rider, " he added, referring to the 1982 TV series starring David Hasselhoff and a sci-fi car.

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We go up to her room, where all the frogs are, and sit on her built-in window seat.

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And yet our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus -- Ms. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her purse, staring out a window, waiting to be arrested.

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Our seat was in front of the house, under the window behind whose shutters Mother had died twenty-five years before.

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