Wonder Struck #[nn]

In the bookstore at last, Ben discovers the now-elderly Rose and Walter conversing in American Sign Language. She quickly recognizes him as the grandson whose existence she had suspected. Ben's father had died young, but had spent time in Gunflint Lake researching for work on the wolf diorama. She describes how her life had opened when she discovered Sign, and how she and her son had both worked on the Museum dioramas. She takes Ben to the huge World's Fair Panorama model of New York City, which she created and now maintains. She tells him of his father, and begins to teach him Sign.

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