"Miss Hodges, are you married?"
It all started at the lunch table.
"No I'm not, AJ*. That's why my name is 'Miss' instead of 'Mrs.'," I explained as I ate my wrap.
AJ sat silently for a minute with a furrowed brow. "Oh," she finally said. "Well, do you have a boyfriend?"
Having recently gone through a breakup, this was a topic I cared to discuss with no one, especially someone with the probing and open-ended curiousity of a six year-old.
"No, I don't AJ. And do you know why? Because boys have cooties," I replied sarcastically.
AJ nodded gravely and leaned in towards me. "I know," she whispered, "That's what you get when you sleep with them!"
She straightened back up. "Plus also boys snore."
