The Water City
<p>When she was a little girl her father told her that there used to be water — canals, dozens of them — running through the city where now there were streets. “The old city used to be delimited on all four sides by water,” he explained.</p>
<p>“So where is the water now?” Isabel asked, wide-eyed and baffled.</p>
<p>“They paved it over,” he told her, “and now there are all these streets for us to walk on.”</p>
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<p>A city of water beneath her feet! It had seemed wondrous, incredible. Isabel imagined a whole other world, a parallel city below her. She could see a wide, blue channel of water, with rolling waves and turquoise fish and silver dolphins and delicate seahorses and beautiful mermaids, all busy and bustling, swimming and diving,</p>
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