“Mumma, when will you die?” she asks with<\/p>\n
Innocence in her eyes and a smile on her lips,<\/p>\n
“Can I keep your unicorn t-shirt as memory once you’re gone?<\/p>\n
And sleep on your side of the bed?<\/p>\n
I will cry so much Mumma,<\/p>\n
When you die.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Says my six-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Will you neck come clean off if<\/p>\n
I pull it hard enough, or<\/p>\n
do you need a knife to cut a neck?” she wonders,<\/p>\n
“Do you think the bears ran after Goldilocks and<\/p>\n
cooked her and ate her up for revenge? Also,<\/p>\n
after you are dead, I will not leave you but<\/p>\n
I’ll stuff your body and play with you,<\/p>\n
like a doll!”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Says my six- year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“I like ghosts and ghouls and monsters,<\/p>\n
and scary things that go ‘BUMP’ in the night,<\/p>\n
Why won’t you show me those creepy movies mother –<\/p>\n
With the zombies and vampires and weird looking dolls,<\/p>\n
and darkness and blood and knives and ‘attackings’?<\/p>\n
I love them all – just like you!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Says my six-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
-Prachi S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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