After a while it occurred to me that what this was really all about was show-and-tell for big people.
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A twitchy man next to me lifted a tarp, revealing a six-foot-tall grotesquerie strapped to a golf cart. It looked like a serpent that had swallowed a string of buoys. A woman struggled to push a huge spinning wheel. To my left, a burly guy cradled an ornate wood carving of a sultan resting on a divan, eating grapes with one hand and grasping a slave's decapitated head with the other.
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The slave's roll-around doll eyes looked right at me. When I entered the production room, I saw a camera crew filming a short, stout woman and her short, stout ginger jar. Nearby, a lady in a hand-knit sweater quivering with three-dimensional flowers held a porcelain tureen that was embellished with molded dragonflies. The expert at the "drawings and prints" table examined my print.
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She pursed her lips. The woman was looking over my head at the line behind me. I could feel her searching the crowd for someone with something that would get her a spot on TV. In the back of my mind I could hear Mrs. Subscribe or Give a Gift.
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Retired-teacher , Mar 8, London English - South-East England. We'd say something was 'a prized possession', not 'my prized possession', since we can have more than one of them: Therefore you can have 'my most prized possession'. In theory, I don't like 'most prize' because 'prize' is a noun, but in fact it doesn't sound entirely wrong.
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