You’re thinking big-girl thoughts. She nearly laughed out loud as this unexpected little saying filled her head. It was something her father used to tell her whenever she started questioning something, or bringing up doubts about what she’d learned in school. Marie had been the one kid in school who, in first grade, had quickly pointed out that maybe Christopher Columbus wasn’t the big hero he was made out to be, but instead, a bully that kinda sorta took stuff that wasn’t his.

