One thing you need to know about Little Salt is he has small ears.
Well, they’re very small.
They’re minute.
They’re infinitesimal.
He used to be self-conscious about them.
The first time he stepped into a classroom, his glasses slipped off one of those ears and hung crooked across his face.
All of the students laughed.
Even the teacher laughed.
His ears weren't big enough to hold his glasses.
"We come from a family with little ears but big hearts," said his abuelo later that afternoon as Little Salt was moping down a long row of tomatoes, thinking about the laughter at school.
"Good thing you don't talk.
You can use your brain for listening.
Your ears sure won't help you much."
As he grew older, he discovered that blue whales, the biggest animals to ever live on earth, have ears the size of the point of a pencil.
Blue whales have minute ears, too.
If they wore glasses, their ears wouldn’t be big enough to hold them either.
"Blue whales know how I feel," thought Little Salt.
“I’m not alone.”
And he wasn’t.
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