In Competition No. 3044 you were invited to provide a lesson in the facts of life courtesy of a well-known character in fiction.
There is space only for me to commend Jayne Osborn, who recruited Dr Seuss: ‘Doing sex is good fun, and it’s easy to do./ Let me demonstrate, using Thing One and Thing Two…’ and salute the prizewinners below, who each receive £25.

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