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"One of my sons is, well, let&amp;#039;s call him a Man of Few Words. Like his father, he uses a dearth of words, as though he owns a set number of them, and therefore can&amp;#039;t afford to waste them addressing such silly issues as, &amp;quot;How was your day?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Where are your shoes?&amp;quot; So when he talks, I listen. Or at least, I try to. The other day, though, I simply couldn&amp;#039;t hear what he was saying. Rather, I was stuck on how he looked. My usually reticent 10-year-old was telling me all about the latest news about Webkinz, the Internet site where he and his brother hang out, taking care of their virtual pets. He was rambling on about the Curio Shop, where he can get &amp;quot;rare stuff,&amp;quot; when I realized: This boy is handsome. I mean, of course I think he&amp;#039;s cute because he&amp;#039;s my son, but with his sun-kissed blond highlights and his deep blue eyes \u2026man, is that boy good-looking. Where did he come from? Then I started to panic. In a few years, the girls will be falling all over him. Will he be able to handle it? Will I? Will he turn out gracious, charming and funny like George Clooney, or will he be another Colin Farrell, trashing hotel rooms between tattoo applications and arrests for assault?  While he told me about his virtual pet, I imagined him five years from now, tanned and lifeguarding at our local lake. Girls will arrange their days around finding excuses to visit him in the lifeguard shack. Then they&amp;#039;ll all meet behind the snack stand to talk about what he said to them - or more likely, what he didn&amp;#039;t say. He will still be a Man of Few Words, and girls sure do dig that. My job will be to pick him up in the lake parking lot and pretend I don&amp;#039;t see the gaggle of girls pointing him out from afar, as though Brad Pitt had just left the building. If I&amp;#039;m lucky, he&amp;#039;ll tell me how his day was. And I promise that I will try to listen to his every word. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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