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Monday, September 11, 2006

A friend of mine from kindergarten who is in my first grade class looked at my snack today (of raspberries, slightly mashed by the time snack time came around). She wrinkled her nose, saying, “Eeewww . . . that looks gross.” I, pondering my response to my friend, came up with the following possible retorts:

1) What? They’re fruit. Have you never seen fruit before?

2) They’re raspberries – fruit, and they won’t make you fat like the popcorn snacks that you eat.

3) They’re raspberries and really delicious. Want to try some?

4) I think we should just leave each other alone, don’t you think?

5) Don’t you think we should just try to be friends?

Mommy and Daddy-Ray say that my responses are all clever and imaginative and that they are proud of me for thinking of ways to stand up for myself if someone is trying to be mean to me or being insensitive. Mommy and Daddy said, though, that they liked answer #3 best!