# what was the question?

      A long, long time ago, a six-year-old once asked me--"Mommy, where did I come from?"  I spent a half an hour carefully explaining in terms a six-year-old could understand how babies get here, when they weren't here before, and thought I had done a pretty good job. The six-year-old in question gave me an odd look, and said "but where did I come from?" . The six-year-old had expected to be told the name of the town in which she was born, because someone had mentioned it in school.