The other day, Margaret dropped off Hazel at school. When she walked into the classroom with Hazel, a little Asian boy looked up at Margaret and said, "Are you Hazel's mom?" Margaret replied "yes I am." He looked at her again and said, "you don't look like a Mom. You are not Hazel's mom." Margaret replied, "well thank you" and beamed for joy at the thought that the little boy must have thought that she was too youthful and young to me a mom.
When she relayed the story to me, I had to bust her bubbles. My conclusion to the story was a little different. The little boy parents are Asians. Hazel looked more Asian to him and has noticed that Hazel's Dad looks like his Dad. Margaret did not look at all Asian therefore she cannot be Hazel's mom. So it was because she didn't look "like us" and not because she looked young (which is true) :-)
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