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 Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
-Category: parable
+Category: fiction
+Tags: epistemic horror, deniably allegorical
+Status: draft
 
-Once upon a time, 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."