
Me: Ugh, I ate the wrong thing or didn’t eat the right thing. I don’t even know.
Stella: That’s because you eat strange stuff out of that cold box. Why don’t you eat the food you give us? It’s easy. It comes in a big bag and out of a big can. There’s a lot of it. We will share with you. Maybe. Once in a while.
Me: But that food is for dogs. Humans have different food needs.
Stella: So you mean that pie, and those potato chips, and that dark drink that you won’t let us even taste, and that stuff that came in the big red box shaped like a heart, and…
Me: Okay. Okay.
Stella: Hey, I understand. I have chewed on a few things in my life that made me gag, too.
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