DCFS?

Dear Tante and Oma,

Abuse! Abuse! AAABBBBUUUUSSSEE!

Alert the embassy! Call for my ambassador! There has been an abuse trés horrible!

I don’t like to speak of it, but maybe you can help?

Mama has a box of little white flags. It’s a very pretty box, with flowers on it, but don’t be fooled. There are instruments of torture inside.

She pulls one little white flag out of the box. Then the horror begins: she rubs the little white flag all over my face and under my nose. I wiggle this way and that way; I turn my head this way and that way, but Mama will not be deterred. I cry and cry and cry but Mama’s heart is stone.

I thought little white flags meant truce or surrender or UNCLE so I grabbed the little white flag and waved it back at Mama. Apparently to Mama, little white flags mean ATTACK!

I’ve been watching carefully, and Mama uses these things on her nose too. Her nose is red and ouchy just like mine, but she seems impervious to the ouchy. She doesn’t wiggle or waggle or cry when she wipes her own nose with the little flag. How can this be?

I anxiously await your reply.

Love,
Little Linnie Lou-Hoo