Tonight's Disappointment Rating:

Eleven.

While attending therapy sessions as a child,

it was suggested to Mary that she might keep a tally each day of times she felt she was a disappointment, and when she felt otherwise.

Tonight as we sat quietly through the noise, she leaned over and whispered to me that tonight's tally was four-nothing in favor of disappointment.

She has yet to learn what the meaning of her tallying was supposed to be.