Coloring outside the lines...

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Paco asked me to do some "coloring" in his book with him one morning.

Thing is, it wasn't really a coloring book, more of an activity book, but somehow he had decided that coloring in it....all over it, the pictures, the words, the designs, etc. was the appropriate thing to do.

At certain times, he would say, "you can't color there, that's not what you are supposed to do."

There was NO rhyme or reason as to where I should or should not color. It just felt random.

There were certainly no instructions, since it wasn't a coloring book.

Finally, I asked, "Paco, since you can't read, how do you know where I should color?"

He answered simply, "Because it's MY BOOK!"