working title: favorites

Maggie - "What are you going to be?"
Ruth _ "I'm going to have a degree in English Literature?"
Maggie - "So what will you do?"
Ruth - "The trouble is I've never really know what I wanted to do for a job. What do you want to be?"
Maggie (firmly and with conviction) - "A doctor."
Ruth - "A surgeon or a family doctor?"
Olivia - " I could never be a surgeon. It would be too gross."
Ruth - "Do you know what you want to be Olivia?"
Olivia (also firmly and with conviction) - "A veterinarian."
Ruth - "I think you're going to have a hard time being a veterinarian without doing surgery."

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In the LRT station a brother and a sister (perhaps twins, they seemed the same age) raced eachother up and down the escalatory - both running up the down, one running up the down while the other ascened stationary on the up. They laughed. Their mother stood with her back to me. She was laughing. I was laughing. In the train they sat in the pair of seats across from me. They were giggling, trying to make their mom giggle. Eventually after many crossed eyes and induced laughter she broke out in giggles. The girl sitting across from me smiled at me.