I recalled this week the spark that caught my eye to the wonder: In kindergarten, for the first time, seeing a magnet collecting iron filings in the sandbox. Enthralling. And then, later, in grade 7 or 8, finding a book about metallurgy. It was the flows. I was transfixed.

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