Just Write {110}

Are you a Mommy? 

I turned around and realized she was talking to me, standing up in the back of the cart her grandma was pushing.

Are you a Mommy? 

Yes, I am. I have three kids. One is 8 years old, one is 6 years old and one is about your age. 

She’s two and a half, her grandma said.

Oh yeah, you’re  the same age as my daughter. Her name is Elsie! 

She said her name then, in a cute little toddler way, and I couldn’t understand her. She said it again. I looked at her grandma. “Her name is Sapphire” she said. She calls herself Sapphi, because well, her mom didn’t know how to spell Sapphire entirely, so she only wrote Sapphi on the birth certificate and it just kind of stuck…now I have her. All the time. She’s mine. 

Sapphi bounced a little from the back of the cart and watched me holding my little plate with a sample from the grocery store on it. Cake. I said, Yeah, this is cake. Pretty rude to eat it in front of you, huh? 

She smiled when her grandma said, Oh she knows exactly what it is, she just had hers. 

I hope she always gets to have her cake and eat it too, Miss Sapphi.

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