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When I was nine years old, I heard kids my age talking about wanting snakes, and lizards. Not small ones, either. Ones that could swallow humans and ones with mouths foaming with poison.
I have never wanted a pet, but Lilah is obsessed with cats. She loves this timid calico cat, but has barely been able to pet it yet. Her mom says that neither of them have the time to take care of the cat, because She and her husband are always working and Lilah will be at school for half of the year and, besides, there's no room for a litter box.
If I were Lilah's mom, (which would be totally wierd) then I would've given her a cat a long time ago just to stop listening to her asking. Lilah is interestingly persistent.
Rewind to first grade. Lilah would have cringed at herself, but she would have laughed the most of all at me. I barely even remember this, but apparently I was so eager to have a girlfriend that I tried to 'ask out' basically all the girls within a thirty mile radius. Being rejected 'repelled my straightness', as Lilah would put it. As much as I'm annoyed with that choicing of words, I can't say that she's wrong.
The first time that I declared I was done with girls (Prim's older brother, now in college, showed me some shows he probably wasn't allowed to let me watch) Lilah seemed to go with it, despite her strong willed attitude.
Prim did not.
When I was nine years old, I heard kids my age talking about wanting snakes, and lizards. Not small ones, either. Ones that could swallow humans and ones with mouths foaming with poison.
I have never wanted a pet, but Lilah is obsessed with cats. She loves this timid calico cat, but has barely been able to pet it yet. Her mom says that neither of them have the time to take care of the cat, because She and her husband are always working and Lilah will be at school for half of the year and, besides, there's no room for a litter box.
If I were Lilah's mom, (which would be totally wierd) then I would've given her a cat a long time ago just to stop listening to her asking. Lilah is interestingly persistent.
Rewind to first grade. Lilah would have cringed at herself, but she would have laughed the most of all at me. I barely even remember this, but apparently I was so eager to have a girlfriend that I tried to 'ask out' basically all the girls within a thirty mile radius. Being rejected 'repelled my straightness', as Lilah would put it. As much as I'm annoyed with that choicing of words, I can't say that she's wrong.
The first time that I declared I was done with girls (Prim's older brother, now in college, showed me some shows he probably wasn't allowed to let me watch) Lilah seemed to go with it, despite her strong willed attitude.
Prim did not.
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