Have you ever been confronted with an eight-year-old that will just not stop talking? Even when you begin saying "That's nice" and "I don't care" and "I really don't care" and "Shut up"? (No, those last three were not implied statements.)

And she just kept talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talk--

And then she walked out the door, and I sighed with relief and prayed that I never had to talk to that particular child again.