Disney World is unreal ? that’s not bad

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Doesn’t Disney World remind you of McDonald’s?” my 13-year-old asked, as the Disney Magical Express, a k a a bus, neared the sprawling theme park’s main gate. “Aren’t they based on the same ideals of sameness?’ I twisted the iPod buds out of my ears — I was fortifying myself for arrival at the Magic Kingdom with Mozart’s Requiem Mass — but didn’t answer, my eyes fixed on the archway as it loomed. I was not, yet, in Disney World. I could, still, turn back. I had never, technically, been to Disney World. But once I entered, I will always have visited, a stain I could never erase. “Better you than me,” our neighbor had scoffed, and more than one reader proudly announced they…

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