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Growing up, Jane Breen's favorite time of day was bedtime because that's when

her father Nick would sit on her bed and tell stories.

One of my favorites was called the Phantom of the World's Fair.

When I was requesting the story I always said,

tell the one about the World's Fair, Dad.

In this bedtime story, Jane's dad was the main character,

a kid from Suburban Long Island

who ran away from home and for 11 days lived as a fugitive

at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

As a kid you're just like, yeah, so fun like what do you mean you just lived at the world's

Farinate funnel cake for 11 days like that's the coolest thing ever you know

now to really appreciate why the story took such a hold on Jane's imagination,

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