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"But Dad, she loves my old sneakers. She won the getting-undressed-underwater test in them."
"Son, it's a perfect gift."
"There's one thing, Dad, I didn't tell you. When you meet Cherry, don't look surprised. It might hurt her feelings."
"Surprised?"
"Dad, Cherry is—a little bit—" Delicacy and candor struggle pictorially in the boy's face; but then, squaring his jaw, he turns to his father and, man to man, blasts him with the awful truth: "FAT."