I loved this the first time read it and it just gets better with every subsequent read. Nobody can write Emmett like you - not even Smeyer. Her Emmett is just a hollow shell that you have made into a real person.

""Emmett, are you OK?" she asks leaning down right in front of me. Little-Bo-Peep gives me a peep show. Mmmmm… those are bunny num nums."

^^ best line ever!