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Sara and Michael invited me to their post-Halloween Halloween party and, being a Hello Kitty fan, I did Goodbye Kitty nails in red, black, and white. The pinky and thumbs are white crackle polish over red.

My recommendation is a book I haven’t read because it’s still in hardback, and can’t nobody afford that: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death If somebody I knew had written it (I’m looking at you, Dr. Barbara J. King), that would be different.

I only know about this book in any detail because I subscribe to The New Yorker and there was a book review by Kathryn Schulz. I’m now a fan of Kathryn Schulz because, although the review is for a book by Susana Monsó, Schulz devotes a nice paragraph to Dr. King’s How Animals Grieve.

ANYWAY, Monsó separates the concepts of grief and death, which is useful. I found it particularly interesting that a possum “playing possum” implies that possum predators, if not the possum, have a concept of life/death and will prey on a living possum and ignore as prey a possum that appears to be dead.

Well, the fact that I find this fascinating may tell you more about me than you care to know, but there it is.

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Playing possum

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