I understand that “dude” is considered ungendered, in California at least, as a form of address. If you ask someone if they’re dating a dude, I believe that’s still a male reference. I live in the East, though, where we think of it as male in both usages.
Except that “pequeñas” is plural, so it clearly applies to the pumpkins, not the woman. It looks like it’s in the wrong place to me, too, and a native speaker elsewhere in the comment section agreed.
Oh, yes, it should be “las” in the last sentence, true! I missed that one. (I am not at all a native speaker.) Thank you for going through this for us.
Oh, I assumed the white hair was fashion, and my sister has a dog named Priscilla (@solarbear indeed after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!). TW doesn’t seem to move with any difficulty. We may just have different ideas about what “old” is, though. I’m over sixty myself, so, of course, to me “old” is older than me!
I understand that “dude” is considered ungendered, in California at least, as a form of address. If you ask someone if they’re dating a dude, I believe that’s still a male reference. I live in the East, though, where we think of it as male in both usages.