[04:31.48]26  She keeps pushing her baby. "A male nanny,"she says. "How unique."
[04:37.96]27  We look at the children, and I feel better.
[04:41.31]Across the playground, a girl falls off the bottom of the slide
[04:45.95]and bursts into tears.
[04:48.33]One of the nannies I lunched with rushes over and picks her up
[04:52.87]and brushes dirt from her knees.
[04:55.53]28  "Do you think she's all right?" I ask.
[04:58.27]29  "She's fine," the French woman says.
[05:01.11]"Kids fall all the time."
[05:03.74]30  But then Sam lets go of the swing.
[05:06.80]He flies into the air and lands face down in the dirt.
[05:11.84]31  "Sam!" I scream. I pick him up and wipe the dirt from his face.
[05:18.28]He looks like he is going to cry but laughs instead.
[05:23.03]32  "You know," the woman says.
[05:25.34]"If you're going to take care of him,you really should be more careful."
[05:29.41]33  Sam is almost 2 now.
[05:32.65]I've decided to go to his mother with my problem.
[05:36.68]One day while we are riding the subway, I ask,
[05:41.03]"What are the reasons you picked me to watch Sam?"
[05:44.45]34  "What kind of question is that?" Ann says.
[05:48.77]35  "I'm just wondering."
[05:51.29]36  "Because he loves you," she says.
[05:54.57]"You make him laugh. You sing songs with him.
[05:58.64]You've read his favorite book to him a thousand times."
[06:03.53]37  "But I don't know how much he weighs.
[06:06.49]And I never can keep track of how many months old he is."
[06:10.66]38  "So what?" she says.
[06:12.79]"I trust you. Besides, you guys are great friends."
[06:17.75]39  The train comes to a stop and Ann gets off.
[06:22.87]"Have fun, you guys," she calls back. Next to us,
[06:27.91]an old woman asks "What's his name?" "Sam."
[06:32.80]I start to tell her that I'm his nanny,
[06:36.47]but then I remember what Ann just said.
[06:39.35]40  "I'm his best friend," I say.

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