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Zooey said nothing for a moment, and then: “Boo Boo’s? Boo Boo’s convinced Mr. Ashe made the world. She got it from Kilvert’s ‘Diary.’

The schoolchildren in Kilvert’s parish were asked who made the world, and one of the kids answered, ‘Mr. Ashe.’

Among a fresh crop of boutiques: the three-level Lark Vintage, with its 20th-century couture and kitchen full of kitsch, and the atelier of the animal-loving artisan Mary Kilvert, who creates woolly sheep sculptures.

“It was unnecessary,” said Elsie Kilvert, 75, of Manhattan, adding,

“It was unnecessary,” said Elsie Kilvert, 75, of New York, adding: “The babies in my family would not have been so calm.”