A heart-shaped puzzle with one missing piece and a small turquoise piece hovering above it.

Original artwork, not a still

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! · 1957

Dr. Seuss

In Who-ville they say That the Grinch’s small heart Grew three sizes that day!

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The narrator reports what the townsfolk say: a stingy, shrunken heart expanded enormously in a single day. The lines are warm and lightly comic, celebrating a sudden change of heart as something almost measurable, a transformation big enough to count in sizes.

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