One day at that time, not so very long ago, three things happened and at first there appeared to be no connection between them.

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3.

No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together.

But sometimes people find this out too late. 

I am nervous. And I am reading the same book I read every year since the fifth grade. Wise words Natalie Babbitt.