GAMBOL
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gambol \GAM-buhl\, intransitive verb:
To dance and skip about in play; to frolic.

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Lex had never been that young, Martha decided. Young enough to jump in puddles, to cavort in the mud in his good clothes, to gambol in a berry patch just because it was there. She looked at the man, remembered the serious little boy he had been -- already Lionel's son -- and wondered.

Because Lionel knew how to play. It wasn't something he allowed himself often, but she had been there. She remembered a long-ago summer, a party, paper lanterns strung from the trees. And game of hide and seek.

Lex had never been as young as Martha was that night.