She even chose a specific time for Sunday. Three o’clock. And before we went, she took a stupendous amount of time braiding Ava’s ribbon pajama belt into her hair. Which I didn’t even try to discourage. If Mint wanted belt-hair, I would stand aside and let her have it. It was weird. Before Mint arrived, I would’ve thought belt-hair made you look ridiculous. But somehow Mint made it look almost okay. Even Kimmie and Paulette had started braiding thin pieces of fabric into their hair. “Isn’t this the cutest shirt ever?” Mint asked me as she spun around in the living room. Mint was wearing a blue shirt that she’d painted with big fluffy yellow birds. I don’t even know where she’d gotten this shirt. I wouldn’t have put it past her if she’d just found it on the street. It was that ugly. “I wanted to add red birds too,” Mint said. “But I ran out of puffy paint.” Who puts red birds on their clothes? How much puffy paint does Mint buy in a year? Isn’t that stuff bad for the environment?
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