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The American Museum of Natural History is putting on a big new show of creatures that don't actually exist, "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids," and two first graders, expert in all things imagined, went to see it last week. The scientific spirit of comparison burning bright in them, Lacy and Lily, as they shall be called, had spent the earlier part of the day at the Bronx Zoo, checking out actual animals, before repairing to the museum.
"These things we're going to see don't, like, actually exist, right?" Lacy said. "So they should call it, for now, the Museum of Unnatural History."
"Or, like, maybe, the Museum of Natural Unhistory," Lily remarked.
Upstairs, Laurel Kendall, a curator,...
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