Me: What are some characteristics that define a mammal?
Young child under the age of ten*: Are WE mammals?
Me: Yes, we are.
Young child under the age of ten:, emphatically: They lay EGGS!
Me, uncertainly: Um. Do
we lay eggs?
The room dissolves in laughter.
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