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My mum lives on a lake in Orlando and when I visited her she had these 'pet' swans that she fed regularly and had named.  She is swan crazy.  I have been doing a project with kids about rivers and when we went for a walk along the river there were swans.  The swans inspired many, many swan images.  The quote was overheard and found again in a journal. Where do they hear/learn/get these things?