Little Boy Blue
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
United States
September 12, 2018 3:46pm CST
Many days they came to the mall. The mother wore a long dress. The little boy was maybe four or five years old. He wore a blue velvet suit. He sat next to her looking very sad.
I always wondered what became of that poor child. I know he must have been dreaming of wearing jeans and a tee shirt like other kids his age. What would happen when he started school? Would he be cruelly taunted and bullied?
Little boy blue might be fun in a nursery rhyme but not in real life. What do you think about this?
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9 responses
@Shivram59 (50270)
• India
12 Sep 18
@akalinus Wow!! You saw the little boy and his sadness,too. ( That's how I should try to see things ). You are very sensitive.I highly appreciate you.I learned from your post how to be sensitive enough to see in and out of things. 
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
13 Sep 18
@Shivram59 Your English is pretty good and will get better the more you write in it. This is a good place to practice English.
@Shivram59 (50270)
• India
13 Sep 18
@akalinus Thanks for explaining it so beautifully.I'll try my best to do so.
Actually English is a foreign language for me.My mother tongue is HindI. Sometimes.I can't express myself correctly in English.You must have noticed my English is not very good and I often commit grammatical mistakes.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
12 Sep 18
Did you ever see him again? It would be nice to learn what happened to him and what kind of life he had.
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@JudyEv (382329)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Sep 18
That does sound a bit bizarre. I hope he ended up having a good life.
@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
13 Sep 18
I don't ever remember seeing a boy--any boy--wearing a blue velvet suit!
Of course what you might be seeing may not exactly being what it is--sort of projecting yourself into the little boy.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Sep 18
I would feel sorry for the boy and hope that when he did go to school he dressed like the other children.
