"C'mon Bug. We can't get out that way."
"But why?"
"Look -- they've got it blocked off. We've got to go around this way."
"But Why!?"
"I dunno. C'mon along this way."
She plants her feet and gives me her insistent look, eyes fierce, lower lip pushed out. "Tell me WHY!"
"I don't know why. D'you want me to make something up?"
Her face relaxes. "Sure!"
"It's like this.... A wild alligator escaped and is wandering around over there. A four year old little girl walked down that way, and the alligator caught her and gobbled her all up! So they blocked that way off until they catch the wild alligator so that no other four year old little girls can go that way."
"Oh....!" She says thoughtfully, "I see....!"
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