re: #380 wrenchwench

One year my best friend and I started defending the most picked on girl in grade school. But it was in a strange way. We’d go touch hands with her and pick up the “cooties” and then chase the other kids and tag them with the cooties, then go back to Mary and get some more. It made Mary laugh and smile, which was quite unusual.

That is a strange way. I wonder if Mary was smiling and laughing to keep from crying. Was she more accepted after the cooties thing?