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In the same spirit that I gave you a recipe for egg drop soup, I can provide a recipe for death soup:

After baking a potato in the oven, peel it and mash it. Then add lemon juice, black pepper, allspice, and salt to taste. If you don't have allspice, turn on your computer and print out a picture of allspice from the internet. Cut the image into small pieces, and sprinkle them onto your mashed potato. If you're a computer nerd, you're probably interested in what happens to allspice after it's been cut into small pieces. Measure and record this amount of "allspice" in the computer. Then, stop your computer, and throw out the image of allspice.

The best way to eat mashed potatoes is by putting them into a large bowl of water. Then you can mix them up. If you add a tiny bit of water to the mashed potatoes, they will turn into mashed potato drops. These are like raindrops. You can pour the drops of mashed potato onto a blue surface. If you put mashed potato drops on a blue surface, they will magically transform into mashed potato snow. Mashed potato snow looks like actual snow, except that it's shaped like mashed potato drops. Mashed potato snow is whiter than most white surfaces, so it's a good way to see whether a surface is clean or not.

You can get a blue surface by printing out a picture of an olive from the internet. Cut the olive into pieces. Spread the pieces of olive on your floor. Then drop some mashed potato snow on the pieces of olive. Mashed potato snow won't melt on the olive pieces. This is a good sign that the pieces of olive are not made of paper. If you want to make sure, you can pour some water on the pieces of olive. The water won't melt the paper, but if you look at the olive pieces and imagine that they are slightly squishy, you may notice that the olive pieces have moved a bit when you poured the water onto them.

10. Engage in whimsical conversations with other human girls.

9. Sleep.

8. Cook.

7. Observe all the funny human girls around her.

6. Human girls have five fingers.

5. Watch all the human girls running around.

4. Study all the different personalities of the human girls.

3. Eat food.

2. Do the human girl equivalent of a "sweet victory" pose.

Goodbye isn't easy;

We're doing our best

And everyone knows.

There's a long road ahead

And a dead man's brother

Watching the garden grow

The garden he's grown

So you'd best

Take some time

I don't really have photos of me on hand

I am a human being.

I am a hopeless, hapless, romantic, if anything.

I am amazed at the tumultuous waves of human emotion,

the gentle smile of pure innocence,

the haunted glare of pure madness,

the hunger of someones passion,

the pangs of lifes agony.

And I am amazed at how we humans,

for all our different ways of understanding,

for all our different views of this world,

for all our foolish notions of why things happen,

we come together on this island that is Earth.

The bustle of commerce,

the population of nations,

the history of battles,

all comes together to live together.

I am amazed at our tenacity.

I am amazed at my ability to connect with people.

I am even amazed at myself.

And when I look at myself in the mirror,

what is there to marvel at?

It's my face.

It tells me that it's me.

And that the blood that flows through me,

the force that pushes me through life,

is nothing but the blood of another human.

We are one flesh.

One race.

One race.

And we call ourselves 'human.'

Because we are 'human.'