ok really funny story.

so like two weeks ago my AP language class went to the state capitol for a convention all about women. i'm afab so naturally i was invited. i went with my friends and we were allowed to explore the booths on the ground floor.

at one of the booths was a pro-life section (against abortions). we did NOT want to go there because all of us are pro-choice. however, our friend (who we'll call K) took one for the team and went to go see what it was about. she came back with four extremely realistic rubber fetuses.

K showed all of us and said they were from the pro-life booth, and all of us decided we had to go. after all, we wanted the fetuses (just to play with them). so K lead the way.

there we found the pro-life booth, where they started telling us why they think abortion shouldn't be legal. the booth was ran by an elderly woman and a man. they had the rubber fetuses there, but not just the very tiny first-stage ones like K showed us--they had fetuses of all sizes, growing in stages until it was fully grown. this was very strange and i felt like i was doing something illegal.

so they asked us if we'd like to hold some, and my first thought was that K just took the ones they gave her and ran, but obviously that wasn't the case, because they were VERY protective of these fake children. they demanded we hold our hands out and have them doused in baby powder to even get to touch the fake fetuses. i did so, and it burned my hands. i'm pretty sure it gave me an allergic reaction, but i digress.

they passed down fake fetuses that grew in stages of life. first was the tiniest one, and the very last one was the full-grown baby. there were four stages depicted, and i was the fourth kid in our group, so i was stuck holding the full-grown one for a while. it was one of the most uncomfortable moments of my life. it looked incredibly real and felt incredibly real.

then they graciously asked if we wanted to take a fetus home. HELL YES!! THE THING WE ALL CAME FOR!!! i took one and called it meredith. THEN they asked if we wanted a little bag to take home. sure, why not. we were already here.

so i left to go wash my hands of the burning baby powder, and dug in my purse for the lotion that prevents my hands from getting dry, and realized that the bag had ANOTHER FAKE FETUS. i didn't know what to name that one, so i just didn't.

The r.abbit fetuses arrived today! We put them in distilled water to rehydrate for one day. One will be going back to the person who sent them to us, and we get to keep the other!

HBO

HEY

QUICK QUESTION

JUST REAL QUICK

WHAT THE FUCK?

AM I SEEING WITH MY EYES??