“What happened Milton?” Franky quietly asked once the Mommies were out of sight. “Am I really seven years old?”
“I’m sorry Franky,” Milton said after taking a deep breath. “Yesterday you were six years old and in first grade. Today you are five years old and in Preschool. Mommies and Daddies get to decide every year if you get older or not. Your age has to change on your birthday, so if they don’t let you get older, you get younger. The hardest part is you lose two years. You were about to turn seven, now you are a kid who just turned five.”
“Why can’t I remember being six years old?”
“When you get younger you lose everything that happened to you since the first time you had the particular birthday.