THINK SMALL AND DIE
One summer as I was packing to spend three months with relatives at the lake up north, my dad said, “Take the gold fish with you. I don’t want to take care of it all summer.” One day after we got up to the lake, I decided to become a liberator. I went down to the dock with my fish bowl and gave my fish a little talk. “I’m going to throw you in this lake,” I said. “You will be free. You can eat well here and grow up to be a big fish.” But when I put the gold fish in the water at the end of the dock, it stayed right there. I backed off, thinking the fish was attached to my shadow. But when I moved back to be sure it was gone, it was still right there. I even threw a stone into the water to scare it away, but that gold fish just swam…
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