Really quick post. I just walked outside to say hi to James and Emily (Justin and Mary's kids) to ask them how their field trip was. Emily began telling me a story about how she was crammed on the bus the whole time, beside a boy XXX on the way there and a girl X, James' friend, on the way back. Upon hearing X's name, James head popped up between the seats, and with the doleful eyes of an 8 yr-old boy, he said, "I'm in love with her." In response to the heartfelt remark by her brother, Emily went onto clarify, "but X doesn't like him like that," to which I replied, that we just needed to formulate a plan to sweep Miss X off her feet. James replied that he had already tried, but she hadn't responded. When asked what he had done, he had the best response of all-- "I kissed her." That is my kind of guy, just cut to the chase.
What a sweet sweet cute kid. This also comes from the same boy who was playing on the beach trying to catch dragon flies. When he had managed to catch two in his hands, I asked how he had done it. He said that they were mating when he found them and thus unable to fly away. In the course of our chat, one flew away but he kept the other tight in his grasp. Then, unexpectedly he turned away from us all, started walking back to the dunes from which he had first extracted the flies, opened his hand and released the second dragon fly into the sky saying, "go back to your love." Oh, I can only imagine the torments of an 8 yr-old love.
Attn: all names have been altered here-in to protect the young romantic from all teasings, hecklings and straight up lashings.
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