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| Is that you Harvey??!! |
My first pet was a parakeet named Harvey. He was a cute little green bird and I loved having a pet. We had him for a few years and then one day he was gone. I was very upset so my mother told me that Harvey had to go back to the pet store because he missed all his bird friends. Of course I then demanded that we go to the pet store to see Harvey. My mother brought me to the pet store down the street and she pointed to a parakeet in a cage and said, "See, there he is. Harvey is fine." Satisfied, we went home.
I would continue to visit Harvey for a while until I forgot about it. Years later we were back in the pet store and I started thinking about Harvey. It was then that I realized that Harvey did not make it back to the pet store, but in fact died. My mother had lied to me! When I asked her why she lied she said, "Well, you were a very dramatic child and if I told you he actually died you would have cried for days". She does have a good point, I definitely would have done that.
Man, your mom was lucky there was a bird there that looked enough like Harvey. What would she have said if there wasn't? "Oh, the colors of his feathers changed?"
ReplyDeleteHarvey was green and yellow which is the color the pet store had the most off so it worked out ha ha.
DeleteI had to change new gold fish to replace dead ones multiple times!
ReplyDeleteha ha I'm sure that happened too.
DeleteIt's a thoroughly modern thing to try to protect one's children from the reality and finality of death. I don't get it. I think it's better to address it as openly as possible. Of course, that's easy for me to say as I don't have any children of my own...
ReplyDeleteI think my mother at the time just wasn't in the mood to deal with it and probably regretted this after I made her take me to the pet store.
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