But something chemical had happened in my brain when I saw Elizabeth Taylor while I was in grade school.

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The fourth- and fifth-graders knew something big had happened but were often unable to understand why it mattered until years later.

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They were close enough to the crash site to know that something unusual had happened but far enough away to not know what it was.

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Clearly, something terrible had happened to Firestone, but it was not her despair alone that led Millett to choose this passage.

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