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On a recent Saturday morning, I was blue-collar grinding (volunteering at a local hospital) , when one of the doctors I've wo-manually labored for stopped by briefly to check on a patient. She had her young daughter, Ivy, in tow. I'd met little Ivy before. The doctor asked me, "Would you mind keeping an eye on Ivy for a minute? " "Sure! " I committed, bending down to get eye-to-eye with the girl and engage.
Ivy's an adorable little human. She's a sober 4 year old, about three and a half feet tall, with wavy chestnut brown hair down to her waist. She was wearing a yellow, "Beauty and the Beast" dress. Ivy's into all things Disney (who the shiar isn't?) . Disney seems to home right in on impressionable young minds like hers and mine.
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The hiding ' ' ' was (not) in your 2nd mention of 'Ivy's'. ;) For me to 'follow' your conversation with Ivy, I had to boost the power on my thinking-cap AND also reread a bit.
some favorite tidbits: 'wo-manually labored' and 'eye-to-eye with the girl and engage' btw, I've been meaning to ask what you DO at hospital; message me?
Menial stuff. I help the nurses. I've helped feed and read to patients, I've assisted patients being discharged, I've deliver messages, gone around with a book cart to patient rooms.
And I found THIS on a sometimes-very-helpful site: 'Urban Dictionary: Shiar The god of curse words. The most attractive girl on the planet. A sexy girl that you can't help but stare at wherever you see her.'
I've only tasted your poem so far, but give it one, two, three, four, five stars. However, I believe you left an apostrophe out of Ivy's; you are forgiven. bri
Anais, what a lovely lovely poem! How keen and ardent observer you are! It is such a pleasure to read this write-up. If you call it a poem, I would too. If you choose to call it a story, again, I won't mind!
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8/16/2025 6:16:03 AM # 1.0.0
I hope you didn't boot Ivy into premature adulthood too early for her to enjoy conversing with her peers! And it's a li'le hard to imagine you being antisocial! Ha! : )