"Look! Dose are fire ants!" Emmie points.
"Do you know why they're called fire ants? Because they bite you and it burns like fire," I explain. I leave out the part where it itches like mad for a week, but Em still looks frightened. She backs away from the small mound.
"I didn't mean to scare you, sweetie," I laughed.
"I don' wan' be fire," she whispered.
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