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In Which The Woman Telling the Story Discovers Something of Who She Is

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »


 
 
One summer’s evening, when a woman was sitting 
with friends at a table in a fine establishment,
her daughter announced it was the one hundredth
anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh. “Well, Hallo,”
said the woman, as she remembered how oftenishly
she and her son would play a game in which
they would guess at what character a person would be
if they lived in the Hundred Acre Wood, so, 
scratching her ear in shy sort of way, 
she suggested they play such a game.
One woman at the table, being a good adventurer
and liking to stay at the edge of the action, 
knew at once she would be Christopher Robin. 
Another was mostly Tigger with a dusting of Eeyore
and a share of Piglet-ish nervousness. And the woman,
who had long known she was part Tigger and part Rabbit, 
seeing as how she was both exuberant and rather fond
of control, was not keen to discover that perhaps 
she was also a bit of Owl, somewhat of a know it all
who is most likely wrong, especially, as it turns out,
about which character her daughter might pick
for herself, which made it Awkward when the woman’s
inner Rabbit took notes and scoffed, and her inner Owl 
went on believing it knew best. But her inner 
Friendly Tigger soon felt Bouncy and Boffish again,
just enjoying the night. “Perhaps we all have a bit
of all the characters in us,” one woman suggested. 
Such a Pooh thing to say. And the evening went on quite right.

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