A grandmother was telling her
little
granddaughter what her own childhood was like: “We used to skate
outside
on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in

our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the

woods.”
The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she
said, “I
sure wish I’d gotten to know you sooner!”