At the chiropractor with my beloved they pointed to a bone on display and said, “Is that a whale vertebrae?”
He enthusiastically said it was, that one of his patients had brought him after finding it on the beach. “It’s a fossilized bone from a whale that’s like a cross between porpoises and belugas, they’re extinct now.”
He added that his patients brought him a lot of interesting bones. Usually they were deer or common forest animals.
But one time.
A patient brought him a human femur.
We stared at him and he was like, “Yeah, the police got involved but it was fascinating! It turns out it was the bone of a Chinese immigrant that had probably washed into the ocean from a graveyard in Hawaii from over a hundred years ago.”
My beloved and I were indeed fascinated but now we can’t stop speculating about where this femur ended up. Who do you call to be like “I have this human bone”? I know what tumblr would do with a human femur.
