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Bruno is just like so many nine year old boys, of fiction and the real world. He loves the large home he lives in – with the garret window and basement, and the continuous banister slide that almost links them both, he likes scoffing at his older sister's doll collection; he regrets being a little on the short and small side, and partly counters that by absorbing and using as many adult words and phrases as he can to appear mature.