Katherine insists that she is not <\/i> cool.<\/p>\n
Boys <\/i>are cool.<\/p>\n
Girls are pretty<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Explanations that the two are not mutually exclusive, and that she can indeed be both cool and pretty are for nought. I have no idea what the word cool <\/i>now means to her, except that it is an attribute of boys.<\/p>\n
“Am I<\/i> pretty?” Margie asks.<\/p>\n
“No, you Mommy!”<\/i> Katherine replies.<\/p>\n
Katherine knows not whereof she speaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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