‘Hey! Hey…he’s got ADHD…that kid’s got ADHD!’ I turned around in the spring wind and looked at the little girl. She was pointing at a little boy who was running in wild circles while the rest of the children bent over together, picking dandelions and spring weeds. No one was watching him except the other little girl who pointed at him and waved in my direction. I said, ‘Well, I have ABCD’ and she laughed and laughed. Then she asked, ‘Hey, wait. What does that mean?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. You tell me’. She thought for a minute. ‘Maybe it’s smart’. ‘Yup…maybe’ I responded with a shrug. She laughed and laughed and handed me a dandelion.
‘Thank you’ I said. ‘Look, look…’ She pointed to her front tooth. I bent over to look closely. There was some sort of a bump on the edge of her gums. ‘Fascinating!’ I smiled at her. I walked away in the sunny wind and she returned to the field of dandelions and other girls. The little boy kept spinning…
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