So here’s the happy ending, as far as it goes.

February 27, 2019 4:58 PM

How To Bury Your Dead Pet Monkey
posted by chappell, ambrose (8 comments total)

That was well written and broke my heart a little bit.
posted by dazed_one at 5:17 PM on February 27, 2019 [7 favorites]

Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho,
Thus doth Messalina go,
Up and down the house a-crying,
For her monkey lies a-dying.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:40 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

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posted by Joe in Australia at 5:49 PM on February 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

Man. And I thought the '90s were bad in Small Town.

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posted by Made of Star Stuff at 8:03 PM on February 27, 2019

That's a good piece. The description of teenage mithanthropy, cloaked as it is in fear and piercing vulnerability, was so on point.
posted by smoke at 8:35 PM on February 27, 2019 [4 favorites]

wow, thank you for sharing this.
posted by elgee at 8:36 PM on February 27, 2019

so good.

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posted by mwhybark at 11:01 PM on February 27, 2019

god.

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We had Perkins, similarly open 24 hours and similarly offering bottomless tea or coffee. My group would get an order of fries for the table and everyone would get a drink. I'm sure the wait staff loathed us.

There's something about growing up in a place that doesn't matter, like, you will never make anything of yourself there, and how can you imagine leaving? I am having some feelings. (I left)
posted by Lawn Beaver at 7:46 AM on February 28, 2019 [3 favorites]