every child loves ponies or donkeys or dolphins at one time or another...but i never did like traditional animals. i had a weird fascination with cows. in fact, i had this stuffed toy cow that i carried around with me ALL the time. i once lost it and cried for two weeks straight. i took it to church, to school, to dinner, it was always in my little girl purse. people made fun of me. i didn't care.
i also sucked my thumb for way too long. paranoia, probably. but a lot of people made fun of me for that too. i didn't care. i kept sucking and sucking until i screwed up my teeth. i remember my mom trying to make me stop sucking my thumb by putting tobasco sauce on it, dipping it in rubbing alcohol OH and i remember one time she bought something that tasted like it was of a level 1 pH. it was god awful.
this picture was taken today at my elementary school's playground. kind of reminds me how dismal my memories of those years were. hah!