EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 2

2011-Oct-20 1349. Showing us his broken nail. He was following standard protocol to inform me of anything he deems noteworthy.

“Daddy, look! Johann’s nail is broken!”

Yes, we speak in the third-person.

2011-Aug-20. Greenhills, San Juan City, Metro-Manila.

“Then the carousel started, and I watched her go ’round and ’round… All the kids tried to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the goddam horse, but I didn’t say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.”

- J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

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