icky rainbows

Ruby and I were on Frankford Ave., crossing the damp street where she noted there were rainbows. I said the oils there make it seem so. She said, "Eww...but rainbows are pretty, not icky." I said some rainbows are icky. She replied, "No way!" She likes to walk on the curb of the sidewalk because she says a girl needs balance, boys don't. I have to wonder at that. Recently, she ran a fever and had a breakout around her lips, cold sores. When she went back to school, recovering, a couple of girls remarked, "Eww, what's that?" and so on. Topically, my wife said to her to tell the girls it would go away, don't worry about it, and ask them, "By the way, were you made in China?" That confused them, what happens to you coming from somewhere else, altering the appearance of things, making you aware of yourself, in another context. My daughter is as beautiful as ever.