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Ella's latest compliment

chris on 2008-Mar-23 04:48 PM

An American League Girl

This weekend we had friends over, along with their four boys ranging from 5 to 12 (I think, I'm terrible with ages). At one point Ella was in the middle of the lot of them, trying to throw a ball, laughing when it hit her on the comeback, getting jostled here and there. And the next-to-oldest one said, "I like Ella. She's tough."

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