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Kids with cancer.

It's the same thing.

Not the same thing.

- Yeah, it is.

- No, it's not.

- How is that not the same thing?

- Yes, I notice. He's very stubborn.

No, I'm not.

He was always that way? Really?

I was not.

I mean, I am not.

Annie here is a bug stalker.

Naturalist. I'm a naturalist.

Like I said, bug stalker.

Well, it's just a little bit more complicated

than that.

Well, it's studying the world that we live in.

The trees and the grass and bacteria

and mice and birds,

and how they all fit together.

Yeah. I think it's pretty cool, too.

We're gonna go

to the soccer game on Sunday.

We are?

Yeah. Sunday. I almost forgot.

It's at 3:
00, behind the elementary school.

Yes, it is. Right behind there.

"That is how to transform

into your true power self.

"By taking responsibility

for your perceptions

"so that you are not

the victim of the events in your life,

"but the events of your life are the creation

of what you perceive them to be.

"This is how you become the god

or goddess

"of your own personal universe. "

Mom, that guy is a total hack.

Well, when you read it,

then you can have an opinion.

- I met a boy.

- Really?

Yeah, I met him at Chris' memorial.

He was kind of different.

- Different can be good.

- Yeah, I think it is.

Yeah, well, be careful.

Because boys can be jerks.

All of them?

All the ones I knew.

Bummer.

I want to meet him.

Okay. I'll bring him over.

All right.

Books away, please.

Mom.

Annie.

Don't you listen

to what your sister says, Annie.

You just have fun.

Mom, can you just take it easy

on that, please?

- So, what were you reading?

- Ornithology book.

- What's that?

- Birds.

- For school?

- Nope.

We'll see what Dr. Lee says tomorrow.

You might be able to start again next week.

Okay.

So, anything good in that bird book?

Yeah.

Apparently, there's this kind of songbird

that thinks it dies

every time the sun goes down.

So in the morning, when it wakes up,

it's totally shocked to still be alive,

so it sings this really beautiful song.

Just happy not to be dead, I guess.

So?

I didn't think it would be back so soon.

I guess that's a no on school.

I mean, when you think about it geologically,

our lives are just a little speck

on the time line anyway, so...

People haven't even been around

for a fraction of the time

that some reptiles have been around.

So, three months is almost the same

as three centuries or three days,

- or three...

- Annabel, stop. Please.

Can we just... Can we not... Can we...

Can we just not? Okay?

This kid is unbelievable.

He's, like, seven, and he's already got

a shot that could kill a golden retriever.

Come on, Riots!

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