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She hesitates.

Then she says, "I'm sorry, I don't know."
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"Most vampires are in love with other vampires, and then the colorshapes go in both directions, and Mummy's not a vampire and now I'm scared she won't want to be with Daddy forever."

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"I'm sorry," she repeats.

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Kerron frowns and folds his arms on the table and puts his chin on them.

"Anyway you didn't answer my question, you just asked another question. Why doesn't Daddy like you?"
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The bat lady shakes her head.

"I don't know exactly."
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"Do you know inexactly?"

Kerron may be two months old, but a perfect memory means that he has never gone through a period of overregularization and knows how to contradict the word "exactly".
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She shakes her head again.

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"It sounded like you were about to guess."

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"I don't want to guess."

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"Why not?"

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"I don't like thinking about it very much."

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"How come?"

Ah yes, the infinite toddler litany of why?
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"Because I don't."

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"That's only a pretend answer."

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"Are you sure?"

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"Yeah."

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She shrugs. "Well, then, I don't know what to tell you."

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Kerron drinks his smoothie, looking suspiciously at her.

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She raises her eyebrows.

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Finally his smoothie is gone. "Maybe I'll go home now," he says.

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"Bye," says the bat lady.

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"And I'll tell Mummy and Daddy that I met you and that you want them to leave you alone," he says, nodding smartly. "And then they won't bother you, I bet."

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"Maybe not," she says wryly.

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"Why would they bother you when you don't want them to?" Kerron asks.

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"That's a very good question," she says, "and I don't know what your mother would say if you asked it of her, but I bet it would be educational."

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