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 Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
 Category: fiction
-Tags: deniably allegorical
+Tags: epistemic horror, deniably allegorical
 Status: draft
 
-In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
+In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west-valley ground squirrels and the east-valley tree squirrels—numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively: I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.
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+Like many pre-intelligent creatures, both subspecies of Plain Speech Valley squirrels were highly social animals. Much of their social lives 
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+(well, there's a reason the ascension of Earth-that-was would be sparked by the _H. sapiens_ line of hominids some millions of years later, rather than by the Plain Speech species 9792 and 9794.)
 
 
 sharing secrets
 
 
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+"I wish I had a special friend. Someone who understood me. Someone to share my secrets with."
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+And beside them, a friend or a mate 
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+"But _I'm_ your friend. _I_ understand you. You can share your secrets with _me_."
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 "That's not what I meant."