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Tales From Under A Middle-Aged Colored Woman

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Image via Wikipedia  What Did You Do? My son and I were in the car going to run some errands.  Before we drove off the block we live on, we saw my ten year old neighbor squirting what looked like liquid lighter fluid on a fire burning in a old Weber grill.  Flames flew up, and he jumped back just before the fire almost burned his little, dirt streaked face. Of course, I had to stop and see what he was doing. I saw someone sitting on the porch and I was hoping and praying it was an adult, but it wasn't.  It was a shirtless three year old girl who never made a sound.  She just stared at me wide eyed with mouth open.  Another boy, who appeared to be seven or eight years old, was standing at the front of the porch next to a cooler.  I ran past them and told the boy to put get away from the fire.  The smaller boy grinned at me. "We are barbecuing some frogs," he said.   "Yo...