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raise a family with a stranger
let's grow each other together.
we'll adopt twenty-six kids: one
for each letter of the alphabet.
the first thirteen will be girls;
the last thirteen will be boys.
we'll neither give them middle names,
nor use uppercase letters. and they'd
be ours.
leslie and oliver and victor and ellen
would be quadruplets; they'd form
hearts with their hands and smile
with their eyes closed. they'd be
our favourites, but we wouldn't
tell them that. we wouldn't tell
them that, but they'd still know.
sure, we'd go bankrupt. sure, we'd
go insane. sure, we'd go everywhere
at all hours at all ages but at least we