″... whenever we had company, Fudge tried to sell Tootsie.
‘You like the baby?’ he’d ask.
‘Oh yes... she’s just adorable.’
‘You can have her for a quarter.‘”
“What was Sheila Tubman talking about? I looked the same as always. And why did she think Tootsie was lucky not to look like me? Unless it was my ears. Lately, they seemed too big.”