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"Time for another installment of The Playground Diaries. Drum-roll, puh-lease...JD likes sand now. It must come with being one. All summer long, he could barely inch off the beach blanket without erupting into tears. He raked his fingers through it for fifteen minutes on Sunday, barely looking up at me, just examining, what seemed, every, single grain with a microscope. I sat on the edge of the sandbox admiring my inquisitive little boy when another one plopped in. &amp;quot;Hello,&amp;quot; he said to me, digging into the sand with both hands like an energetic puppy. &amp;quot;Hello,&amp;quot; I said and JD looked up at me smiling, his fingers sprayed out, pasted with sand. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m gonna dig a pool!&amp;quot; he said.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Pretty cool,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;My name is Sam,&amp;quot; he looked up and said. &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s yours?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m Christine and this is Jack,&amp;quot; I said. Jack mimicked me, saying: &amp;quot;Ack!&amp;quot; then threw his hands in the air (My kid is a genius, btw) My name is Ack! &amp;quot;I start school tomorrow,&amp;quot; the little boy said. &amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s so exciting!&amp;quot; I exclaimed. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m four you know!&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;How old is he?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He&amp;#x27;s one,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;How old are you?&amp;quot; he asked. &amp;quot;Guess!&amp;quot; I said, thinking he&amp;#x27;d say something adorable like the last kid I had this convo with. He guessed I was, &amp;quot;old enough to be in twelfth grade.&amp;quot; Sam stared at me for a long time. He studied my face, so hard that his eyes squinted. His lips pursed together too, and then dissolved into a crooked, half-smile. &amp;quot;Hmmm,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;For-teeeeeeeeee--one?&amp;quot; 41. Awesome. Full disclosure: His mom recognized me as the &amp;quot;GLAMOUR mom.&amp;quot; That was pretty cool, considering her kid guessed I was 41."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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