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Okay. You stick with the bow.

Enoch, come away from the edge.

Don't worry.

I'm over that.

Are you?

Yeah. I'm fine.

- What's the score?

- You're up five hits.

I thought it was six.

We didn't count that one.

I did.

Tennessee, St. James and New York

are the best properties on the board.

I like Boardwalk.

Yeah, nobody wins with Boardwalk.

It's a terrible investment that never pays off.

I like Boardwalk.

Fine. I'll trade you orange for blue any day.

Okay. Deal.

What?

That's her.

- Who?

- That girl I was telling you about.

- Why is she dressed like a boy?

- She's not.

Are you gonna go talk to her?

- What do I say?

- You could say hello.

I'm gonna go talk to her.

Okay. I'll see you at home.

She won't be able to see me anyway.

All right, see you, Hiroshi.

Annabel.

Enoch.

Funny running into you here.

I was just walking.

By myself. You know.

Cool.

I like to come out here to draw.

It's nice, you know, to get out.

Yeah, always good to get out.

Seen any good funerals lately?

Yeah. This one guy,

he had this weird skin disease

that made him go crazy or whatever.

Closed casket.

Of course.

Could I see your drawings?

I'm not very good. I just like to do it.

It's okay. I can barely draw a stick figure.

Okay.

This is Chroicocephalus ridibundus,

the black-headed gull.

Her head is actually white in the winter

and she has these cool black streaks

on her plumage.

That's the little-footed gull.

That one's not finished.

- And there's...

- Who's this guy?

I really like him.

Nicrophorus americanus,

the American burying beetle.

- I like his little mustache.

- Yeah.

He's pretty amazing.

What makes him so amazing?

Well, they can smell carrion from miles away,

which is what death smells like.

So basically, a male and female

will show up at the body,

and kind of get to know each other.

Then they work together to bury the carcass.

And then they mate.

And then she lays her eggs on it.

But they aren't like other species,

like bug species,

that just run away afterwards.

They make

a little chamber nearby, underground.

And then, when the babies hatch,

the parents go chew up the corpse

and feed it to them.

Isn't that amazing?

They actually take care of their kids.

Do you want to meet my parents?

Sure. Okay.

Do you always meet your parents

at a graveyard?

These days.

Mom, Pop,

this is Annabel.

Yeah, yeah, I'm eating.

Why is that always the first thing

you ask me?

Hello, Mr. And Mrs. Brae. I'm Annabel Cotton.

You can call me Annie, if you'd like.

It's nice to meet you, too.

We met at a memorial.

It was for a friend.

I'm fine. Thank you, though.

She works at the hospital with cancer kids.

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