Sunday, August 17, 2008

I want to go to New York

When I first met Thalia she told me.
"I am four years old."
Her first nanny was from South Africa so she speaks English fluently. She always talks in perfect little sentences with all of the articles intact. At one point, after I had known her for a bit she said to me.
"Rene. Can I tell you something?"
"Sure." I said.
"I would like to go to New York."
Her mother, father, her father's brother, his wife and her friend all told me the same thing at one point or another. But she was the first. So. Dibs.

Mem tells me that Thalia is often asking when she is going to get married and have her husband. I told her:
"You should wait until you have finished the first grade. Then you will have your education."

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