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.
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.
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