In my car the other day, with the girls in the back seat, I came across a dead squirrel in the road¦

• ME: ohhhhhhhhh
• DELANEY: (age 6) What, Mom?
• ME: There was a dead squirrel in the road.
• DELANEY: Oh! How sad!
• ME: Yeah.

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• ALLIE: (age 4): There are a lot of squirrels in the world.