We Learn to Cope when We're Ten

Manny and his friends Joey Appio and Marck Evangelista were in my car.

I asked Marck how his mother was because I knew she had pneumonia.

He said, "she's good."

I said, "but Marck, doesn't she have pneumonia?"

He had no answer and was a little spaced out.

Then I asked, rhetorically, "so if your mother had her leg chopped off, would you say she was 'good'"?

Joey chimed in from the back, "we learn to get past that."