"That's good, because he can only date Mom, right?" She stopped and turned to me in the hallway, still holding my hand, so that I had to stop, too. She stared up at me with those sincere brown eyes of hers, so direct, so convinced I'd tell her the truth. She hadn't changed all that much since she was six. "I mean, I know that you date Uncle Richard and Uncle Valerie and they date each other, but that's not what Mom and Dad do, right? They don't date other people, right?"
"That's right, they're monogamous."
"And you're poly-whatsit," she said.
I couldn't help but smile. "Polyamorous, yes."
"But Dad and Mom aren't polyamorous; they're the first one, they're monogamous."
"Yes."
"Then why did Mom's friend say that?"
"I'm not sure why Dixie did it."
"Is she crazy?"
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