A small wooden chair, golden plush dog and folded paper kite on a flower-covered green mound beneath a blue sky.

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Clairee Belcher

I've just been to the dedication of the new children's park.

— Steel Magnolias • 1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker announces, in passing, that they have come from a ceremony marking the opening of a new park for children. It is a plain civic report, giving the sense of a public occasion just ended and an area set aside for play.

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