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tea and gossip

Feb
11

The prince and princess came to tea today. (Charles and Camilla?) Hard to tell. They were invisible. (If it WAS Charles and Camilla, invisible would be a Good Thing.) But they must have been special because my daughter got all dressed up in high heels and perfume and laid out her tea set for them.

Conversation (one-sided) went like this:

“He did WHAT?”
“I can’t believe he’s such a jerk.”
“How could he do that to her?”

At nine my daughter has already absorbed a basic tenet of womanhood. Men are always wrong. Even if you have to make it up.

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Posted by Suzanne McMinn on February 11, 2005  

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