What Pet Would It Be
If you could have any pet I said.
“A piranha!” she yelled. Then she laughed.
She is seven years, eight months and two days.
“A piranha!” I reiterated.
I had never had this answer before.
I had to look up piranha to see how to spell it.
And I have asked hundreds of children this question
in twenty- eight years. Maybe thousands.
She had the best smile on her face.
She was the happiest I have ever seen her.
She could not stop smiling.
It was the last question I asked her, because it was perfect.
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