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  "text": "Halfway down the stairs\n\nIs a stair\n\nWhere I sit.\n\nThere isn't any\n\nOther stair\n\nQuite like\n\nIt.\n\nI'm not at the bottom,\n\nI'm not at the top;\n\nSo this is the stair\n\nWhere\n\nI always\n\nStop.\n\nHalfway up the stairs\n\nIsn't up,\n\nIsn't down.\n\nIt isn't in the nursery,\n\nIt isn't in the town.\n\nAnd all sorts of funny thoughts\n\nRun round my head:\n\n\"It isn't really\n\nAnywhere!\n\nIt's somewhere else\n\nInstead!\"",
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