If you are interested in the Mutter Museum, you might want to stop by the National Museum of Health and Medicine- which is on the grounds of Walter Reed. The collection isn't as extensive as the Mutter's, but it is closer and has a fascinating fetal development colletion (including fetal cojoined twins). Plus, I believe they have the leg of the 'elephant man' (if I recall from a visit about 12 years ago), although that could have been on temporary loan from elsewhere.
What's really fun is being called up by my 12 yo niece who's screaming, "IJUSTFINISHEDCATCHINGFIRE!! WHENISTHENEXTBOOKOMG!!" and being able to say, "I TOLD you you'd be nutzoid when you finished!"
My one complaint about Hunger Games/Catching fire is that Prim, who's supposedly the catalyst for many of the choices Katniss makes, never has felt like a complete character--I'm being *told* she's lovable and worth sacrificing for, but I never really *felt* it from the text. But that's a very tiny complaint next to the wonderfulness of the books.
(They're not genetically mine, but I feel a fierce maternal protectiveness for the various monstrous births. They need someone to love them, and I do.)
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and being able to say, "I TOLD you you'd be nutzoid when you finished!"
My one complaint about Hunger Games/Catching fire is that Prim, who's supposedly the catalyst for many of the choices Katniss makes, never has felt like a complete character--I'm being *told* she's lovable and worth sacrificing for, but I never really *felt* it from the text. But that's a very tiny complaint next to the wonderfulness of the books.
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(They're not genetically mine, but I feel a fierce maternal protectiveness for the various monstrous births. They need someone to love them, and I do.)
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