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@@ -5944,7 +5944,7 @@ shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
 They said he was amazing.  The Amazing Maurice, they said.  He'd never
 meant to be amazing.  It just happened.
 
-He's realized something was odd that day, just after lunch, when he'd
+He'd realized something was odd that day, just after lunch, when he'd
 looked into a reflection in a puddle and thought, /that's me/.  He'd never
 been /aware/ of himself before.  Of course it was hard to remember /how/
 he'd thought before becoming amazing.  It seemed to him that his mind had