This is a picture taken by Jennifer. AJ's sitting happy as a clam (Are they, really, all that happy? Or is it just a sham to throw us off our game?), or something. That's “Diesel #10” in his hands, and a Thomas the Train T-shirt.

Why do boys instinctively love trains? What's that about? Are we boys hardwired somehow to respond to the power, the deep bass rumble, the dangerous machinery, the oil? Maybe trains remind us of God?

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