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is a lacey confection, hand-knitted in rainbow waves that include an occasional ripple of the same deep green. Propped on her elbow, chin cupped in her hand, she's . . . reading, or so they tell me. This two-year-old prodigy has a book open in front of her. From time to time she shakes out her wet thumb, says some words aloud, and scratches her nose, or pushes a snow-white curl back behind her ear.