Buttercup

Since moving to the new school mid term, Twyla and all of her brothers and sisters had been stuck with awful nicknames; Twyla became Twinkie; Carla, Cupcake; Domingo became Ding Dong; Sonia became Snowball; and Josefina became Ho Ho.  In spite of the school counselor’s advice about “Sticks and stones etc”, it was just awful to be named after second rate, long shelf-life snack items no one admitted to eating  . . . .  David, Sf.G.