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Another thing that happens in the emergency room is that they put you on ice. If you have ever been to a grocery store that has a fish counter, you know what I mean. This is one reason I would rather not be in the emergency room. If you opened your eyes really wide and smooshed your lips together, you would look like a fish on all that ice except they use blue ice packs instead of real crushed ice. Sometimes I open my eyes very wide and push my lips together into a kissy face but most people don’t understand what I am doing and only ask if I am OK. What I don’t understand is how all these really smart people can miss something so obvious. Don’t they ever make fish faces at their kids or their dogs?

But then I think about how once I read that the most searched question on Google is “What is love?” and how that must mean that millions and millions of people in the world, even the really smart ones who know which needle goes where and not to pick the purple cabbages still might not know what love means. There is even a page that shows you that “What is love?” is the most searched question so that all the people who don’t know what love means won’t have to feel bad. I have considered making a dating service for all these people so they can meet and not feel alone and maybe even teach each other what love is. Plus no one would be embarrassed because that part would have been taken care of at the beginning when they signed up. I think being in the same place can be a very important learning experience.

Once I told this to someone who came into my room and she told me it was a little too ambitious for someone my age. I made a note in my head to include her in the dating service because she seemed like someone who might have searched “What is love?” because she seemed to be very good at checking charts and my temperature, but didn’t seem to understand how important it was for me to be ambitious.

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