A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, “Mom, guess what? “We learned how to make babies today.”
The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.
“That’s interesting,” she said. “How do you make babies?”
“It’s simple,” replied the girl. “You just change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.”
The girl was talking about spelling rules—how to make words plural (like “baby” to “babies”) by changing “y” to “i” and adding “es.”
Then I placed another folder on the table. Inside were documents showing that I owned the lake house and had purchased it during the company’s financial crisis….
I smiled. “Good,” I said quietly. “You just made my decision easy.” Every smile around the table disappeared. I picked up my phone and sent one email….
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