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This girl puts me in mind of Miss Jean Louise Finch…better known as ‘Scout,’ the narrator of Harper Lee’s brilliant novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was a clever girl, Scout. Curious and intelligent, a bit of a tomboy, though after giving the matter some thought she “…began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.” Scout was precocious before precocious was cool.
If there is a Universal Truth in this world, it’s this: intelligent children will get in trouble. At one point in the novel, Scout’s brother accuses her of being a bother. She responds, “I asked him [her father, Atticus] if I was a problem and he said not much of one, at most one he could always figure out, and not to worry my head a second about botherin’ him.” And there it is. Scout thinks nothing about bothering her father to ask him if she’s a bother…not because she is a bother, but because she wants to understand. She wants to understand everything.
And this child…this lovely, slump-shouldered, wide-eyed, charming child…you just know she’s the same way. You know just by looking at her that her mind is moving a thousand times faster than the speed of light. You just know this child is going to sometimes get herself in trouble. And you can’t help but love her for it.
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