Love is at work

"Mommy, we're the ocean hugging the shore. You're big, like the ocean, and I'm small, like the shore."

-- S.C., 3 years old

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"Verbs are doing words. . . . 'Love' is a verb."

-- S.C., 3 years old

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"Daddy, you are a tangerine of love! You are a candy cane of love! You are so sweet."

-- S.C., 3 years old

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S.C. asks about Daddy's work, and why he has to leave for work every day. She would like so very much for him to stay home, too. She asks why we need the income he generates, and she listens intently to the explanation: this income pays for books and learning toys, and -- S.C. interrupts, plaintively, anguished --

"Then I'll give it all back!"

-- S.C., 3 years old

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