This afternoon Guy and I ended up at Marshalls looking for nothing but if we found it, aaahhhh how good would it be. After looking at the shoes, housewares and men's clothing we decided that there was nothing we had to buy.
While looking around I noticed a little girl about 10 + - sitting on the floor reading. Of course my first reaction was why is this child sitting on the floor reading? Why is she sitting in the middle of the aisle reading and how many overly made up women were pissed because they had to walk around her? I thought well good for you little girl, keep reading.
A few moments later she comes scampering across the store, books in hand, I hear "You're buy'n books? Why you doin that?" She explained to her parents (not sounding anything like them) how important these books were to her and why she had to have them. They seemed incredulous that she wanted books instead of something else. Mom said "fine, you can have one" and she begged for two but dad put down his foot and counted to one and said that is all she could have. Little girl continued to argue and plead for two books but dad said "we said one and we mean it, you can only have one book", now be quiet. I looked at Guy and said "did we really just hear that?" he said yes and gave me that sad teacher look of his.
I do believe little girl did get her 2nd book because she was relentless. Good for her.
I have to wonder what does the future hold for her? She is clearly smart. Will she have the strength to rise above her parents and some day become a teacher, district attorney, store manager, top chef or anything she wants. If anyone out there reading this and has a connection to G-d, please ask for protection for this little girl and ask G-d to let her learn about Justice (to be) Satomayor, Shirley Chisholm and Hillary Clinton or mine and Guy's mothers who did a pretty good job and allowed us to not only buy books but encouraged us to read them and discuss.
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