#twelve-year-old

[henk-heijmans]

Twelve-year-old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi, 1937 - Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965), American

[amethystyles-blog]

i'm so photogenic. whenever i try to take a picture of myself i always end up looking like a deformed llama.

or a twelve-year-old.

or a deformed twelve-year-old llama.

something along the lines of this.

[janybeans-blog-blog]

A surprisingly interesting conversation with a twelve year old

"Oh wow! You still remember his name." I said to her. She said "of course! I named him W- the weasel!"

When she kept on talking, I stopped her.

"We're not together anymore."

"why?" she asked curiously.

There was a long  pause. It took me a while to put my thoughts together.

"Not compatible?" she broke the silence  before I could explain in simple words for her.

I was surprised when I heard her saying the word "compatible". Even a twelve year old girl had an idea that compatibility was what kept a relationship going. 

The thing that has kept me interested was that why would a 19 year old guy couldn't follow what I said when I explained that "we're not compatible" while a twelve year old could.

I was further surprised  when she said "accepting him as your boyfriend is harder than getting over your relationship" after  I told her that my mom was heart broken over my  termination of a one year relationship. And the girl added, "that's not her relationship."

When she said it was harder for someone to accept a new person into a family than to let go of a past relationship, I couldn't help but to spill the beans to her that I was recently in a relationship, very in love, with a guy whom was unaccepted by my parents.

As she heard what I said. Curiosity was all I saw in her eyes. I quickly filled her in.

I said" well…" I was hesitant when saying it out. "he's...Greek."

"Completely Greek?" she asked, completely amused by what I said. 

I said yes with a smile on my face.

It was when she asked something completely out of my expectations, where I found it ridiculously funny after I understood what  she said, and was reminded that she was still a twelve year old girl.

"Did he dye his hair?" was what she asked me.

I couldn't follow what she said and asked why.

She said "Did he dye his hair black?"

At first I thought she was so mature that she was aware that there were different types of hair and eye colors in Greece, unlike for the Chinese where 97% (I made that up. I'm not really sure about the percentage) of them have black hair and eye color.

So I was confused by what she said and I said he didn't have to because his hair was already dark brown, almost black like us and I asked why again, feeling befuddled.

She gave me a lovely smile and said because he would look like Asian if he dyed his hair black.

I cracked up after I heard her explanation. It was really funny when you heard someone who tried to help you out with a solution which was thought to be easily fixed, but was more complex than it was.

After all, it was such one good laugh that has made my day completely.

What a very precocious girl you are dear, Nicole. 

[little-caskett-things-blog]

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Twelve-Year-Old's Green Tea Stand Shut Down in Massachusetts

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Twelve-Year-Old's Green Tea Stand Shut Down in Massachusetts

Well it’s not exactly lemonade but it’ll do. Christopher Carr’s twelve-year-old stepson had set up a smoothie and green-tea stand near their house when they moved back to the States after the earthquake in Japan. After they’d set up shop, Christopher took his daughter back inside to get some lunch, leaving his son to manage things at the stand.

This may be the first case of state police shutting down a kid’s green-tea stand, but the list of lemonade stands being closed down by various government agencies is long and growing.

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