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August 31, 2015 @ 3:27 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up

Me, answering a question distractedly: That’s just, um—

Rilla, shocked: That’s just dumb?

Me: No, just ‘UM.’ I was thinking and trailed off.

Rilla: That makes more sense. If you had really said ‘that’s just dumb,’ I would have thought you had a bad sickness.

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tanita says:

LOVE that. The world as it should be: clearly Mom would have lost her MIND if she’d said anything was dumb!

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