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Kids say the best things

Our niece is here visiting.  She'll be 5 on August 20th.  Jana is a very smart almost 5 year old, but she is so tiny.  She looks like a typical 3 year old, but then she opens her mouth and you KNOW she's not 3.  People are constantly commenting on her beauty and I don't think I have to explain that to those of you who have seen her pictures or met her in person that she is just a gorgeous child.  The other day we were taking a walk and she said, "Auntie, why do people always call me beautiful?"  I said, "Because you ARE beautiful, Jana."  She said, "What's beautiful about me?"  I said, "Well, there's your skin.  It's the perfect color, not too dark and not too light.  Then there's your big, BULGING, beautiful brown eyes (that's from a movie, but true about her, and she giggled), and your hair is so black and shiny and silky and wavy...you're just beautiful!"  She said, "Hmmm."  At that point her end o