Since the fern can't go to the sink for a drink of water, I graciously submit myself to the task, bringing two glasses from the sink. And so we sit, the fern and I, sipping water together. Of course I'm more complex than a fern, full of deep thoughts as I am. But I lay this aside for the easy company of an afternoon friendship. I don't mind sipping water with a fern, even though, had I my druthers, I'd be speeding through the sky for Stockholm, sipping a bloody mary with a wedge of lime. And so we sit one lonely afternoon sipping water together. The fern looking out of its fronds, and I, looking out of mine . . .
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