How shopping for a purse led to a renewed bond with my

Its nice to see one of its memories from childhood was that of a thief and a clever one at that. I guess this is its attempt to justify that. It didn’t know how to ask for the purse but it knew how to ask for the plastic boat. Uh huh, gotcha there Skippy. Glad you sorted that out.

“When I was six, I stole a purse.”
" I stole it because I didn’t know how else to ask for it."

“So I turned back to my assigned side, grabbed a big yellow plastic toy boat that opened up at the top, shoved the purse in there, and asked my mom for the boat instead.”