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06.23.08
Abstract Conversations In Modern Parenting, #371 In A Series
posted by Absinthe | 2:02 PM
A couple flee beachward with their one-year-old in search of more hospitable temperatures. On the walk back to the pier they discover a large, round pool of sand spilling from the mouth of a gigantic concrete hippopotamus.
She: We’re going in the sand.
He: Sure? It looks hot.
She: It’s fine.
He: Considering the implications of a public sandbox in a town with a huge homeless population, don’t you think …
She: We pay a hundred bucks a month for classes to enrich his life. If we can put him in the sand for free we’re doing it.
He: (to empty air) … can’t argue with that.
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