“I want to marry a policeman,” Esmeralda says with a grin. “That way I can shoot his gun.”
Oh dear.
“I never want to get married. Girls are gross,” Dustin complains.
Both his cousins look at him with narrowed eyes.
“Girls are not gross. Boys are gross. They stink,” Olivia says, getting off the couch.
“Yeah, and they do weird stuff like eat glue,” Esmeralda adds.
“I don’t smell or eat glue,” Dustin says, defending his gender.
I start to laugh. Yes, I do love this. I’m lucky to have had a chance to experience the beauty of love and family even after thinking I never would again . . .
But, like I said, love happens when you least expect it. Even to old women.