Quote of the month

Wherein the ballet school's director is quite bubbly after a few glasses of wine and we learn that yes our paranoia is correct and The Child has been marked with a big ol bullseye

 
Apparently, there's been some confusion:

"I thought they were Jews from New York, but they're really Gentiles from North Carolina!"

It is true, she was not aware of the quart of bacon grease in our refrigerator. *We're* not from North Carolina either. I mean I guess I am depending how "from" is being defined. Because at this age, being born there and living there a few years just doesn't seem adequate enough to claim the from tag.
 
Not that there's anything wrong with it. *It* also being fungible and variable.