Josephine: lying with her head on my shoulder in bed, stroking my hand, as she is starting to settle down for a sleep...
"Mamma. Actually. You are not very pwetty."
A long silence (her thinking, me ..wondering what was to follow..)
..."Mamma. It's your skin. It's all bumpy and not smoov wif all those fweckles."
....more thought...
"Maybe your body can send up suckers underneath the skin to just..suck the fweckles in? Then your skin will be nice and smoov. Maybe you will look young again. Like a little child. People who are old, their skin also bunches up all together, not like us children."
