When she was a baby, I used the nickname "Stinky Sue" on her once - a character name was what I was thinking, not that she was malodorous - and it stuck, at least for me it did.
I accidentally call her that in public sometimes. Oh well, not really accidentally. I must like to see her glower at me. I seem to pull her chain as often as she yanks mine.
From my recollection of my own teen-hood, early adulthood, and still to this day - it has been the same symbiosis with my Mother, mutual chain-yanking.
Love the mother/daughter dynamic. It is most productive in shaping character. I try to express to Julia that even though she needles me at times, she also brings the best out in me. (And vice versa is my intention.)
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She don't look so stinky, but then they haven't figured out a way to transmit smell over the Internet yet...
Oh, she's stinky allright. Stinky from the get-go. Take my word for it. Smells like a dead varmint that's been lying in the sun for a couple a days. Throw some toilet water on her and she screams.
Really, Julia is a sweet smelling girl, inside out. I'll miss her, in a good way, when she starts 8th grade, which is exactly one week from today. :)
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