It had been years since I last visited Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History–decades actually. It was long before Sue came to Chicago.  As a child, I went to the museum every couple of years.  I remembered a hall full of dinosaur skeletons, a roomful of mummies and sore feet.  Oh, and the huge building. My siblings and I used to wish we lived in that building, with its vast rooms, marble floors and sweeping staircases.

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