Sometimes, Rhiannon, used the wrong words. Instead of saying “Let’s bake a cake,” she might say, “Let’s bike a cake.” Or she might say, “insistent” where “incident” should be phrased.
Rhiannon had a secret, too.
Her secret? She said the wrong words on purpose. And she loved people who never corrected her
for using the wrong words.
She kept a list of their names.
Rhiannon was named after a song. Every year, on Rhiannon’s birthday, her mother
played the song on an old stereo. Strangely,
another girl in Rhiannon’s small town was named after the same song. Rhiannon always wondered if the other
Rhiannon’s mother played the song.
And some people called Rhiannon
by the correct name, but she knew she was the wrong Rhiannon.
—Mitchell Hegman
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