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Hey all,
Here's Rosemary's lastest school report, for those interested...

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"PLUMSTONE, Rosemary Louisa
Rosemary has steadily been making progress throughout the school year, and has shown good skills in English, Music and Mathematics. However, she does have trouble grasping simple ideas in Science and needs a lot of help before she can start to understand. Rosemary also proves quite a distraction for the other children and needs to learn to save conversation for the playground."

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Meanwhile, I was approached by Miss. Lee, Andrew's nursery teacher, while I was waiting to pick him up.

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"Hiii." She gave me a cheery smile. "You must be Andrew's mummy."
"Sure, whatever."
"I was wondering if we had time for a little chat...?" She eyed my leather jacket wearily. There was no need to, I only got it from a Next sale.
"Shoot." I grabbed Andrew's hand before he could run off and try to climb a nearby bollard (he has a fasination with the things).
"Well...I don't mean to pry..."
"Well don't, then."
She gave a nervous laugh. "The thing is...Andrew's very quiet. He hardly says a word...he doesn't ask for anything, he just does it."
"That'll be his sister."
"Rosemary?"
"She doesn't let him get a word in." I gave her a brief smile. "Can I go now?"
"I think he's finding it hard to make friends..."
"I'm sure he'll manage. Come along, Andrew." I tugged at Andrew's hand and led him away up the street as fast as I could.

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Rosemary suddenly became obsessed with the idea of owning a kitten. We wouldn't let her, so she hid behind the fridge until we reached a compromise, a small fish in a bowl. She warmed to it immediately, and called it "Kitten Food".