It's All Magic

I was playing tic-tac-toe with my niece Hayden a few weeks back, and she lays down an ill-placed “O” in the corner. I took her down with my next move but to try to soften the blow (she’s 5, and I do have a heart) I said, “oh, well that’s tricky.” She looks at me dead in the face and says, “IT’S ALL MAGIC.” I don’t know exactly what she was talking about, but in the moment it just felt a little bigger than x’s and o’s.