Exactly. And if you have friends who don't eat chocolate often, you may even deliberately choose to downplay having it for every meal.

I'm trying to recall if there was a time when DD wasn't rather sanguine about things like this. I think so. I recall her being very excited to get artwork featured by a local bookstore, and thrilled to be interviewed by the newspaper. I think it started to change for her when she was about 11, maybe 12 years old. About the time she entered high school.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.