Doc says I wouldn't make it to 12

[Kerry Logan]

My Momma seemed more concerned about the scar than the surgery. Well, I can’t see it. They cut a nerve when they did it and I couldn’t feel anything in my arm for a while. I let the kids in class poke it with pins. At recess we liked to climb the tall pines at the back and sway them back and forth. I told Momma I had no idea how I got pitch on my clothes. 

[Jeanette Cheezum]

I loved the ending. So like a child that fears what comes next. 

[Kerry Logan]

Thanks Ladies! But it is almost word for word what my Grandma said. 

[Sandra Davies]

As Gita says, you pitched it perfectly, and in such a way that I could recapture the way the parental gap felt, before I became a parent.

[Kerry Logan]

It was one of the last stories my Grandmother told me. She had a way of saying things on the slant. 

[Gita]

there is that thing we do when we're that age, the daredevil thing, the fit-in-with-others thing, and you just sketched it perfectly. It's cool to have numb places and climb trees. It's uncool to let Momma coddle you.