both part of a nutritious breakfast

The five-year-old says, "There's a little thing of milk on the side of the cup." 

He pauses. 

"It looks like a drop of white blood." 

As I ponder what makes white blood look like blood rather than, say, milk, he tilts his head to study the rare albino plasma droplet, then gulps it down, erasing all evidence it ever even existed. 

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[Karen Edmisten]

We have white blood at our house. He is welcome to visit at any time.