The Girl Who Didn't Know What To Believe

very seriously indeed.
Meritxell had two very best friends. Her first best friend
was her Grandpa. He was the funniest, kindest, wisest person
she knew. He lived with Meritxell and her Mother, in
the same house where the little girl had been born all those
years before. Grandpa was always tinkering with things that
he was either taking apart or putting back together on the
kitchen table. Meritxell was never sure which, and sometimes
she thought he didn’t know either.
When he wasn’t tinkering, Grandpa was reading. He
didn’t read books that you or I would think were exciting.
No-one was on an adventure, or learning to be a magician.
He also didn’t read books you’d think were useful, like how
to make a cake or grow redcurrants, or how to become a
successful YouTuber. Instead he read books by Philosophers,
people who thought very long and very hard - so
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