the truth revealed
the final tally: eight votes for #1, six votes for #2, and two votes for #3.
you’re all smart little monkeyninjas. smart little bloggypants, you all are. #1 was in fact, a complete baldfaced lie from beginning to end. while my grandma jean was a marvelous woman, we were never very close. she died at 91, when i was 11, and living in tunisia, not kenya. i felt almost nothing at the news of her passing except grief at my mother’s mourning and a vague sense of discomfort at the general need for tears. while i did have a similar epiphany concerning the miracle of contant thrumming life in my veins, that was many years later.
as for #2, yes, people, i did in fact take my relationship with my parents very much for granted, and was somewhat amused by ethernautrix‘s idea that only someone much younger could make such a mistake. life is a learning curve, and i’m sure there’s still much i am painfully oblivious to in this world. like, for instance, how to make gnocchi, or exactly how badly labor hurts.
obviously, #3 rang very true to a lot of people. good to know i wasn’t a complete dolt that day on the steps of the post office.
thanks for playing!

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