After school
Edith and Alice play outside together. When they come in Edith announces, "Watch! I've taught Alice how to do a Juliet death."
Alice promptly adopts a pained expression, flutters her eyelids close, throws her hand to her brow, and sinks to the floor.
Then she gets up, and they debate whether Juliet died by poisoning or stabbing. I ask them where they learned about Romeo and Juliet at all. They shrug. "Everyone just knows about it," Edith says.
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At pick-up Alice mentions, "I tried to explain to Mia about 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me,' but I don't think she understood."
Edith: "I hate to burst your bubble, Alice, but preschoolers don't usually know about news quizzes."
Except, it appears, when they do.
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Now I know they're my nieces. Way to be Wait Wait fans, guys!
At this rate you'll clearly know way more than any of my juniors and seniors who are currently telling me about how farmers had difficulty with the "Great Planes" in the 1930s after all the Okies left their farms because the government told them they had to.
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