"Now I'm a little offended that this you didn't," Kathy said, feeling nothing of the the sort. "But...you were already hot enough to be intimidating. It was only that you were an adult and adults generally don't care about being mean to little kids that let me speak up."

She looked back over at the picture, unable not to smile at it again. "You that young--I would have been terrified of drawing your attention. You were clearly too pretty to be nice."