If Megan knew about the concept of God, and she was asked to give it a name, I can guarantee you that she would choose Belle. She named her bear Belle. She names any character we come up with, who is a girl, Belle. She names her body parts Belle when she isn't using the anatomical name.
So you can imagine that when I took her to see our local high school production of Beauty And The Beast she was completely enraptured. To the exclusion of everything else on stage she was laser focused on Belle. She even watched the costume changes and let me know that Belle now wears pink in addition to yellow and blue. A very important development indeed.
After the show we went outside to meet all of the performers. Megan went straight for Belle and got up the nerve to even shake hands with her. Ally, the girl who played Belle, asked Megan what her bears name was. Megan replied, "You!" To which I had to explain that the bears name was Belle. The biggest reaction came when the actress asked Megan her name, then told Megan that her own name was "Ally". The notion that Belle would not be Belle, but instead be someone pretending to be Belle, who had a different name, was mind blowing to Megan. She talked about it all the way home. It was very cute and an interesting insight into the workings of a young mind.
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