I'm not sure why but moonbot is suddenly very distressed by the Very Hungry Caterpillar
we aren't really reading it through these days, she mostly wants me to name each food and poke her fingers through the holes
but...
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...she's always enjoyed the last three pages
I usually make them pretty dramatic, and she gets into it
but lately, she's bursting into tears when we get to the page where he turns into a "beautiful butterfly!"
then she makes me flip back to the caterpillar pages...
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...growing increasingly dismayed about something???
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she's also getting a bit unhappy at the end of books in general but Caterpillar is the most intense
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if I imagine this, the child parts of me "get it". not sure what I could say to explain!
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speaking "from" this part:
oh my god, this is garish
like the bad part, the end is coming, you are happy about the end coming?
this doesn't feel happy, this feels bad
something perverse/decadent in a bad way is happening
you're trying to make me be OK with dying?? or pretend?
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the wings are too big and something feels weird about the angle of the body 😖