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Most mornings, my 2-year-old makes a request to “ride Mama dinosaurs.” What he’s really asking is if he can sit with me in my wheelchair on a visit to our local science museum, which has a paved trail through dense woods with incredible life-size dinosaur replicas. Many weekends we arrive early and join the crowd of families waiting for the doors to open. My enthusiastic toddler pumps his fists, trying to incite a juvenile riot: “We want Tyrannosaurus rex! We want dinosaurs!”