Little Rylee has her hoodie on upside down and can’t figure out the zipper. I lift it over her head and we get it sorted out. “No wonder”, she says. It is a hoodie from the office, size XS, and two sizes too small. The school has extra clothes for any child who needs them, thankfully, but the sizes can be a problem. Rylee can calculate a sum quickly, can’t pronounce her r’s yet, and her handwriting looks like spilled rice, barely there.Her brown eyes shimmer when she raises her hand, and what she wants to share is usually about something good that is going to happen to her. Unless it’s math, then she is completely on topic. She holds your gaze with her sweet trembling eyes. She helps all the other students with math. She once told me another student had broken her heart with mean words. Can a kid be a saint?
Her house is not far from school, and there is always a car or two with the hood up, parked in the yard. She has lots of cousins and a trampoline. She brought a dollar to school Friday and lost it at PE. The PE teachers looked for it and couldn’t find it, which worried her because she might get in trouble at home for that. I meant to give her one and say someone had found it, but I forgot. I don’t think anyone should forget to do a kindness for Rylee.
So I bought her a hoodie that will fit and put some tic tacs in the pocket.
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