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YOU DID WHAT WHILE WE WERE GONE?

El Magnifico and I enjoyed a three-day hiatus out of town with friends. Meanwhile, our young-adult daughters took turns babysitting their 6-year-old sister. Everything went great on both ends.

But I was having my doubts when Maddy started describing the visits by our neighbor’s adorable grandson, Hunter. He also is 6, and might be a future suitor for Maddy. He does, after all, have a tremendous collection of Matchbox cars, and he offers her a chance to be a little mermaid in his grandma’s backyard swimming pool. So we have an over-the-fence play-date series going.

Well, Maddy said that while we were gone, she and Hunter hung out a lot by our pickup truck, parked out back.

“By the pickup?” I asked. “What were you doing?”

She shrugged. “Oh . . . drinking.”

“DRINKING?!?!?!?”

Turns out it was Juicy Juice, punch flavor. Let’s just hope it wasn’t a glimpse of our future as elderly parents of an active teenager.