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How would you have responded?

To preface, I am a very trim and slender woman who is accustomed to not being able to even get through a quick grocery store run without receiving looks of admiration as well as jealousy.

Anyway, this weekend I brought DD along to the grocery store in order to pick up some goodies for the Superbowl party that DH and I were hosting. While in the condiments aisle I couldn't help but notice an overweight (think FUPA) woman wearing stained sweatpants and a lumberjack top, looking haggardly at the ketchup bottles.

I quickly tried to manuever our cart out of that particular aisle because I didn't want to expose DD, but it was too late. She looked at me, with her big and innocent eyes, and asked "Mommy, why did God let this woman let herself go like that?" I know that the deeply shamed woman heard her, but she pretended to be immersed in her ketchup pursuit and didn't even look our way. I said, "I will explain it to you during the car ride home."

Of course DD asked again as soon as I got back to the car after returning my cart. I still couldn't come up with an answer, despite being a very well educated woman in possession of a MBA. She was deeply traumatized to know that those sort of people exist and asked for an explanation again this morning... What would you say?

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