"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
Alice replied rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at the present..."
Alice replied rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at the present..."
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"Who are you?" Simon asked... and for a moment I had nothing to tell him.
It might have been only a moment but it might have been a lifetime and when I blinked in the fading sunlight and the little Sudanese boy was still standing before me looking curiously up into my vacant eyes, I realized that my mouth had gone completely dry.
"I'm Kelly." I said finally with an answer I wasn't sure would suffice.
"And I'm Simon," he said with a conviction that I was immediately jealous of.
It might have been only a moment but it might have been a lifetime and when I blinked in the fading sunlight and the little Sudanese boy was still standing before me looking curiously up into my vacant eyes, I realized that my mouth had gone completely dry.
"I'm Kelly." I said finally with an answer I wasn't sure would suffice.
"And I'm Simon," he said with a conviction that I was immediately jealous of.
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I ended up back in an frosty apartment flopped down on a too short couch confused about why such a question from such a questioner would be so difficult for me to answer.
Of course I'm Kelly.
"Are you content now?" said the Caterpillar
"Well I should like to be a little taller, sir, if you don't mind... three inches is such a wretched height to be," said Alice.
"Well I should like to be a little taller, sir, if you don't mind... three inches is such a wretched height to be," said Alice.
Well I should like to be a little....
And my mind immediately filled with all of the little things I'd rather be, jostling to be first in line, trampling weaker thoughts, shoving like a herd of rhinos in a china shop, wrestling like fish caught in a net...
Nah... Kelly, just Kelly, is alright.
"It is a very good height indeed," said the Caterpillar.
