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When James announced that we only had one delivery for the day, I called to him from my office, “Come in and let me interview you.” I do believe all the color drained from his face.

When I was a child, I placed my six baby dolls in six shoebox beds and declared myself nurse, doctor and administrator of my own hospital. Each patient had a chart, a diagnosis and excellent medical care. I administered Sweet Tarts at intervals to cure whatever ailed them.

Hollywood is great at faking it. In fact, so are thespians who have such skilled talent that live-theatre is popular from local stages to Broadway in Manhattan. It takes years of study and training to play a character role, so much, that actors become famous around the globe for the parts they play.

Desiring to possess things, whether or not they belong to us, is quite common. And it begins when young children want something that others have, or when their own toy is in the hands of another, they cry one word, “Mine!”

I had a discouraging day yesterday.

Growing up in a home where the board of education was applied to the seat of understanding, being regularly acquainted with discipline brings a flinch at the mere thought of it. My mom and step-father may have spared the rod, they did not spare other forms of correction, all with the idea of motivating better behavior. To be clear, this column is in no way a promotion of abuse.

“I like your hair!” a woman at the party said.