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Today I hand delivered a sincere note from Goblin to a little boy, apologizing for biting him. It was on engraved stationery. The little boy is Alex, the younger of two sons adopted by a gay couple in our neighborhood. Yesterday, while I was chatting with his fathers, Alex tried to grab Goblin and pulled back a bloody stump. Or that’s what you would have thought had you heard his ear-splitting wails; she actually barely broke the skin on one of his knuckles.

Alex is Vietnamese and his big brother is Chinese, but both are being raised bilingually in English and German. I am in no small amount of awe of this entire situation. I just hope Goblin’s apology is accepted at face value and that a child raised amongst the harsh vowels and guttural consonants of the Teutonic language doesn’t start asking pragmatic questions about how a dog got a hold of engraved stationery.

Comments

"Children are to be seen, not bitten." You were probably zoned out when they taught that lesson in third grade. Hopefully Goblin doesn't feel too bad about it. Even a lady will strike back when her ears are pulled. Hm, that plants an X-rated image into my mind that would make a pretty fun logo for Goblin's stationery, though not one suitable for children.

German isn't that harsh... I think it's prettier than French, at any rate. Point is, I bite children too.

Children are full of germs. I hope Goblin rinsed her mouth out with Listerine.

Schaef: Goblin was using the house stationery, which has a different logo on it.

Goblinbox: Everyone who likes German bites children in their spare time.

Curtis: The last time Goblin used Listerine, she had eaten someone's vomit and licked a rat on the same evening walk. A child is probably comparable to both of those combined, now that I think of it.

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