Elena has a great memory, or "membery" as she calls it. Like many things in life, this has both advantages and disadvantages.
Elena's lastest interest has been hearing stories from when we were little - she asks us (and any other adult) to "tell stories from when you were little." I'm getting to a point where I'm running out of stories.
Anyway, the other day Elena had the opportunity to ask my Uncle Paul for stories when he was little. She lucked out there because Paul is a great storyteller, and his stories are never dull. So she heard all about how he used to go rat hunting by the garbage dump when it was set on fire each night and how he (accidentally) shot a dead man's rear end when he was 12. The next day she was telling Seth one of the stories she remembered:
"One time, this guy took a newspaper and lit it on fire, and then he was using the fire to burn the hair off his arms. And then Grandpa Lawrence came in and said, 'What are you doing?!!?'"
Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief that she didn't remember exactly what Grandpa Lawrence had said, she corrected herself, making sure to get it exactly right: "No, wait - he said 'What the hell are you doing?!!?'"
We told her that she probably shouldn't repeat that story to her friends...
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