My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers

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I’ve no idea how it happened, and I don’t think it had much to do with me personally, but I am the parent of a child who loves people. I’m no misanthrope, yet my nearly three-year-old daughter’s intense attraction towards – and curiosity about – her fellow human beings is a source of ongoing wonder. She has always been a lively and loquacious child, even by toddler standards. It wasn’t until last summer, in that long early stretch of the pandemic, that the extent of her gregariousness first became obvious.
This was peak ice-cream-eating season, and after dinner it became her custom to wander over to the freezer and take out a mini Cornetto, which she would insist on eating in our tiny front garden. “Out front,” she would say, pointing in imperious toddler style towards the door and the world beyond.

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