Penetrating Questions from the Second Grade

She asked me if I had liked her father the first time I met him. "I did like him," I said. "He's a nice guy."

She asked me why one of her grandmothers did not like her mother. "I think it was because she wasn't invited to the wedding," she said. I reminded her that her parents had gone to city hall--there had been no celebration to attend. "Oh yes. Then it's because my grandmother didn't find out about the marriage until after it happened," she said.

I asked her if she knew what I had done for a living. She said no. I told her I had been a college professor. "Is that where my mother got the idea?" she asked.