“Great job writing your friends’ names, buddy. Whose do you want to do next?”
“I want to do mine.”
“Well, let’s pick one for someone in your class and then you can have the ones that are left over.”
He does two or three more, and the conversation repeats.
“Should we do Jackson’s?”
“I want to do mine.”
“…Okay, but you don’t normally give a valentine to yourself. We do have to do one for everyone in your class.”
“How do you know?”
“Because I’m your mother and I’m smart.” He looks unconvinced. “I’ve done valentines before. Who’s next?”
“I’m going to do mine.”
“All right, fine. Do one for yourself and then we’ll keep going on the list.”
He does one for himself.
To: Connor
From: Connor
Momentarily satisfied, he writes a few more classmates’ names, and then we move from the cards with the gel things to the ones with the button things. “You’re wild!” says the card with the monkey picture.
“I want one of these too,” he says, and addresses another one to himself.
To: Connor
From: Connor
I don’t even argue this time. It occurs to me that one of us doesn’t get it, and I’m not sure it’s me.
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