"No girls allowed." I wonder if he'll feel this way ten years from when this photograph was taken, 2009. We'll see. The little hands he used to hold the wooden sign are bigger today. Then he used them for finger painting, bubble blowing, and holding mommy's hand. Now he uses them for other things. 'Big boy' activities. Throwing a baseball, playing video games, writing stories, but NOT to hold little girls hands. Those hands are still reserved for mom.
This is an anecdote, a vignette, a flash of insight into someone's character, but I don't see it as a full-fledged examination--it's part of a larger piece. Try doing the larger piece in a rewrite, okay?
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