The scene is a long ride in the van on a rainy freeway. We’ve been singing “Old MacDonald”<\/p>\n
DADDY: “… and on his farm he had a …”<\/i> what?
\nKITTEN: You <\/i>choose!
\nDADDY: [considers what has not yet been done] “… a cow<\/u> <\/i>…”
\nKITTEN: [howling like the damned] Noooooo!!!!
\nDADDY: But Katherine, you told me to choose. That’s what I chose.
\nKITTEN: [Long, considering pause] Let me <\/i>help you …<\/p>\n
Or, as Henry Ford put it, “You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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