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| - "Sport Sharewood and her brother Jeb live in a large, expensive house, but their mother is cold, insensitive, self-centered and yelled at her children for everything they did; their father is kinder, but he is a distant and preoccupied businessman. In the end the children are happily living with Aunt T whose love is unconditional. Sport hears the increasingly distant voices of her parents, but ignores them."
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| - "Sport Sharewood and her brother Jeb live in a large, expensive house, but their mother is cold, insensitive, self-centered and yelled at her children for everything they did; their father is kinder, but he is a distant and preoccupied businessman. While sitting beside their pool, a young boy in a Huckleberry Finn straw hat pops up from the deep end of their pool and invites them to follow him. The children follow him by diving underwater only to come back up in a lake bordering a rustic, simple homestead. All around them are children swimming, fishing, and playing. In contrast to their lavish home of neglect and insults, they are welcomed and loved from the moment they arrive at this children's paradise. There is only one adult there named "Aunt T", a sweet and kind elderly woman who loves children; she explains she has many children there who came from parents who didn't deserve them. When Sport and Jeb decide to go home, for fear that their parents will be worried, they learn that their parents have decided to divorce and hadn't even missed them while they were gone. When the parents tell the children the news, they give them the choice of either living with their mother or their father and berate them for not deciding quickly enough. The children have an epiphany that their parents do not genuinely love them and never will. Their mother blames the kids for having her and her husband being together much too long. Ignoring their parents' shouts, Sport and Jeb race back to the pool, dive in, disappear and escape back to Aunt T. Back on the pool's surface, the parents anger turns to worry when they realize their children have been underwater for too long; the father jumps in, but can't find them as they both shout their children's names in despair. In the end the children are happily living with Aunt T whose love is unconditional. Sport hears the increasingly distant voices of her parents, but ignores them."
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