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Little Girl (poem, overheard)

8/24/2016

 
Oh! I love your hat
I love your shoes
I love your sparkly unicorn
I love your leggings with the big red hearts
I love everything about you!

Except the person inside.

​I did not write the first five lines. I overheard a grownup saying exactly those words to a little girl not even two years old.

    Jo Paoletti

    Professor Emerita
    ​American Studies
    University of Maryland

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