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I eat my boogie.
“Gross!” Mom says.
No, yummy, I giggle.

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Mom and I walk across the parking lot. And head to the car.
I point to the ground.
Look, Mom! I say. Our shade is moving with us.

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It is a day to be outside. There has to be at least one of these days each year.
I jump in and try everything.
Dad grabs a rod and reel. The real kind. Not the balloon kind. And casts the line out into the pond.
Then he lets me reel the line in.

After several tries. We catch [...]

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Will you be there? I ask Mom.
“Yes, I’ll be there,” Mom says. “And your Daddy, too.”
I won’t do it, I say to Mom. I will sit with you.
“I will leave it up to you,” Mom says.
We drive to the school. And all my friends are there. Wearing pretty dance clothes. Just like me.
We giggle. [...]

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Mom talks with her hands.
She’s not talking now. But her hands still fly around.
What are you doing, Mom? I ask.
“I’m thinking in my head,” Mom says.
Silly, Mommy, I say.

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“Come here,” Mom says. “Let me clean your face.”
No, I say.
“You’re face is dirty,” Mom says.
My dirt is clean, I say. And prance away.

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Mom, I say. You look like a cow.
“I do?” Mom asks.
She is not happy.
Yes, I say. But a pretty cow.

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