"Where did you go?" "Out." "What did you do?" "Nothing."
by Robert Paul Smith · first published 1957
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I read this book as a child in the 1990s. I think I picked it up at a garage sale, along with another of his books "Where did you go?" Out "What did you do?" Nothing", an entertaining memoir of his youth and all the nonsense he got up to with the other kids. Highly recommended by 12-year-old me.
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