J [aged 4]: Mom, you made me in your tummy?
Me: Yes.
J [hesitantly and politely]: And ... Mom? You just want to make me with one ear not hear good?
[I did my best to explain that mothers don't control how babies grow, or what goes into making them who they are at that stage, and that we had no more control over ears than we did over eye colour or whether they were a boy or a girl, which he found very funny]
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