told <\/em>him you weren’t…”<\/p>\n“Old habits die hard.”<\/p>\n
“I guess ‘significant other’ hasn’t quite caught on. It’s kind of formal, anyway.”<\/p>\n
“What would you want them to call me?”<\/p>\n
I smiled adoringly at him. “You would be my ‘old man’.”<\/p>\n
“Oh right. Then would they call you my ‘old lady’?”<\/p>\n
“I prefer to be your ‘queen’….I guess they could call you my ‘prince charming’.”<\/p>\n
Chris got that funny look on his face, the look that means his funny bone is clicking into place. “…do you think that if a real royal family, and you had a son…?”<\/p>\n
“NO!” I said. “That’s not allowed.”<\/p>\n
“Why not? there could be a prince charming the first…”<\/p>\n
“No, it’s against the rules.”<\/p>\n
“What rules? If you were King, you could do what you wanted.”<\/p>\n
“You could not! The same rules that let you be King would dictate what sort of names you could use to name the princes.”<\/p>\n
“…and then he would grow up to be King Charming…”<\/p>\n
My turn now. “Of course if it were an Emperor…maybe in China…”<\/p>\n
“The Ming Dynasty?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah…Emperor Char Ming.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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