Only different people change the world, Granny used to say. No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.
— Do you have a lighter?
— I’m seven!
— How long are you going to use that as an excuse?
— Until I’m not seven any more?
Then the boy shouted that Elsa couldn't be Spider-Man because «only boys can be Spider-Man!» And then Elsa told him he could be Spider-Man's girlfriend. And then he pushed Elsa into a radiator. And then Elsa hit him with a book. Elsa still thinks he should thank her for it, because that's probably the nearest that boy ever got to a book.
Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact.
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