5 Minute Freewrite: don't pick that

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Find the prompt here:
https://peakd.com/hive-161155/@daily.prompt/30-march-2025-mariannewests-freewrite-writing-prompt-day-2691-dont-pick-that

Don't pick that!

What? Why?

It's the last of its kind, the very last of its kind! You pick it to your doooooooooooooom. Doooooooooooooooom!

Doom. Remember that game? I played that game a lot a long time ago. A long time ago. There's a cat rubbing against my head. When he does that, watch out, he might try to bite it. The dog is biting at her favorite tiger toy. She used to have a different tiger toy, but we forgot it at the house where we were staying a couple years back. Our friends with the house gave us this other tiger toy as kind of a replacement, and she took to it immediately. Would she have, if it hadn't been a tiger? She's a funny little dog in how much she loves her toys. She likes to fall asleep with them right under her chin.

Today is the 6th anniversary of my father's death. He died in 2019. 2019 was a momentous year, in that there were so many moments that have had such a huge bearing on the rest of our lives. Namely, our fathers' deaths. I know there's no reason to these things, but coincidences like that are fucking annoying.