April 23, 2010

• slightly off color

  “Keep it wrapped up” Greg told me. That is what he had learned from becoming a dad. Greg Day. Nice name. When I write a book, there will be a Greg Day. He sat waiting to play basketball, so I quizzed him.

  I have found survival at the youth center is not being afraid to knock into someone’s life with a question. Greg’s question was life as a dad.

  “Wrap what up?” I ask innocently. He looks down at his basketball shorts. “Wrap IT up.”

  oh.

  “I am done being a playa. It was too hard to keep all those females happy.”

  It is a funny thing to watch one of your youth center kids grow up. Funnier still to catch their adult words on paper.

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