It’s a smile a girl could bring home to mother,…

It’s a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with in a dark alley.

Sourced, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
(1994)

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