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Gwendolyn Soper's avatar

Thank you for recounting this experience, Lily. Grateful to be invited to experience this moment of tenderness, and sadness. I felt the "potent energy wake within" you the way you described it, thus something woke within me too. Warmest regards, my friend.

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Lily Prigioniero's avatar

Thanks Gwendolyn— such a pleasure knowing you enjoyed reading it. Hope your holidays have been blessed with good health and surrounding love and that a happy new year awaits!🥰

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Joseph Rosevear's avatar

That is an interesting article, yet gruesome. For example, we do not eat our pets when they die. When you mentioned the "potent energy wake within" I wondered if it was food poisoning or some other reaction. The article was an interesting and moving read, but I stumbled on the word "instinctually". I would be inclined to use "instinctively". Your article reminded me of my reaction to learning that laboratory rabbits that I had sacrificed for a science project one summer--many years ago--were saved for future eating by a fellow lab worker.

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Lily Prigioniero's avatar

Thank you for your comment Joseph. “Instinctively” is the correct word— I often fear I’m forgetting my English for having lived here for so long. It’s funny you mentioned food poisoning, I actually had written “and it wasn’t food poisoning or indigestion..”, but I took it out because I felt it disrupted the description of the actual sensation I had of the animal leaping out of me.

Thank you for your feedback — it’s much appreciated. 🥰

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Joseph Rosevear's avatar

Thank you, Lily. It is a pleasure reading your interesting words and thoughts.

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