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Shades of Grey

Shades of grey are not talking about the book or the movie, it is about colors!

Do you know how there are different colors like red, green, blue, and yellow? Well, there is another color called grey. But it's not just one color like red. Grey is a special color because it can have many different shades or variations of it.

Think of it like a pizza. Say you have a pizza and you cut it into 10 slices. Each slice is a different shade of grey. One slice may be very light, almost white, while another slice may be almost black.

Now imagine having a lot of pizzas and cutting them into many slices, each with a different shade of grey. That's how many shades of grey there can be!

So when people talk about shades of grey, they are talking about these different variations of the color grey. It's kind of like having a lot of different shades of one color!
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