“Oh so pretty! So skinny!” the ladies at the local shop gushed to my daughter.
In my head, I formulated so many responses.
“Thank you so much, but my girls are learning not to talk about other people’s bodies.”
“Wait…did you just compliment a seven year-old on being skinny?”
“Eh, genetics.”
But of course I responded the only appropriate way I could think of to the well-meaning women: an awkward smile. I couldn’t bring myself to say thank you which…well, weird.
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