oh dear - we hear the "most girls of 5 wouldn't..." refrain about 20 times a day.

it worries me that this kind of talk means that she's always defining herself by her "Otherness" ... but then again, she's not particularly typical, so for better or for worse, it's not an inaccurate self-assessment. sigh. this is a very tricky one.

Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor. Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.