Best of Rox on Vox: Was that dino smart?

Originally titled: "A post by Petunia, with postscript"

(Note: Petunia's school teaches "phonetic spelling" -- and I'm keeping her story true to form.  This story was not a school assignment; she crafted it during free time.)

Dino's

Dinos are gigondor lizirds.  my fafrot is the Apatosurus.  the Apatosurus had a strong tail and a strong hart.  so sometime's thay one agyenst meat eaters.  was that dino smart?  yes it was!  that's yhi it one somtimes agyenst meat eaters.  thay where nice to.  thay ate grass and trees.  thay would be kind to pepol to.  thay lived on the grownd.

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This neatly printed story came home on Tuesday, and I shared it with the Guv on Wednesday evening.  The Guv then said what is perhaps the nicest thing I've ever heard him say: "Sometimes, I just want to tell her to climb on my back, and just stay there, stay there for the rest of her life."

And I say that sometimes, one can spend nearly two decades in love with someone and still find reasons to love that person just a little bit more.  Sometimes, I realize just how lucky, and how happy, I am with my family.  Sometimes I need that reminder.

Originally posted to Rox and Roll on Vox, December 13, 2007.