Friday, July 16, 2010

100

Did you ever meet Maybe? I did, once. That's the stupidest name I've ever heard, Maybe. Like her parents looked at her and weren't sure about her yet, and said to each other "Maybe," and the nurse thought it was some new-fangled name and scratched it onto the birth certificate and by the time her parents got around to naming her, it was already too late, the ink was dry, the nurse was done with her shift and off to sleep for hours and hours and play with her little dog, whose name was Molly, a common, sensible, nice name, not like Maybe.

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